Kentucky.... specifically Louisville...south or midwest?

[Davart]

Soul food and CLASSICAL southern food are different, just as Cajun food is different albeit Southern by the nature of geography. All of them have weaved and woven their way into their respective classes or groups making them all southern and all different.

I think "SOUTHERN FOOD" would be the parent group and Soul, Cajun, Country et. al. would be the sub-groups there in, all southern but uniquely there own. Even 'Country Cookin' is regionalized where you will find predominate recipes styles of the same dish that vary greatly.

Just my opinion ...

[Louisvilleslugger]

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Chicago has a black community larger than all of Metro Louisville. Trust me that there is a lot more southern cooking there in AA neighborhoods. "Soul-food" and country cooking are much different! Soul-food has southern roots due to slave migration/migration due to racial tension and factory jobs, but this does not impart a southern flavor to a city.

Well with Southern blacks bringing their knowledge of cuisine to the North, and especially in places like Chicago and St. Louis which recieved tons of Southern blacks, I think it would leave somesort of imprint don't you. Don't get me wrong I'm not at all sugguesting that these cities are Southern or anything crazy like that. The point is that Soul food is for the most part Southern food, and I have THE Food Network to accredit for that knowledge. So for you to try to differienate different city cuisines on the basis of rather it's Soulfood or Southern is quite pointless, as you will use nothing but subjective examples or observations to prove your point. If you're not aware Southern cuisine, differs in the South depending on the Sub region your in and if rather or not you're in a city or a rural area. For example anyone with common sense can see that Nashville, TN's cuisine is noticebly different(understatement) from Nutbush, TN.

As you know, Chicago, STL, and Detroit were the major recipients of the industrial era Great Migration, thus their soul-food heritage--Fried Chicken, Collard Greens, etc. Does this make them southern? I think not!

Again for the most part the entire Soul Food cuisine is just the name for modern day African American cooking, that descended from slaves in the South, and as far as I'm concerned greens and fried chicken were primary slave meals. But if you insist that there is somesort of major difference between soul food and overall Southern cuisine, and that difference is what makes Louisville and Nashville different than you have every right to do so.

How many country white people do you see at Indi's on West Broadway?

Well there is a Indies off of Cane Run and it from what I see has a few white customers. But I really don't know where you're going with this argument.

but I can count on one hand the number of whites I have seen when I pick up wings there for games (the wings may be the best in town).

This is where I see your fault in your argument. Your perception of the South is too narrow. If you believe that in a city larger than Louisville (Nashville) that they don't eat non Southern food, then you know nothing about the South.

As you know, its no secret that most white people in Louisville are scared of the west end, and we even have had first time visitors on this board speak to that effect. It is sad but true

Yes we West Enders Know the drama.

[stx12499]

It is time for this thread to end. It has become a bantering mess, and another moderator already locked the poll.