Inside Atlanta’s soul food revolution

Inside Atlanta’s soul food revolution

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This is soul food, as Atlanta now knows it. As this rapidly growing city welcomes food trends and immigrant communities, its Black chefs are experimenting with heritage ingredients and global flavours alongside new techniques, creating dishes their grandmothers wouldn’t recognise. Or would they?

Here’s how Atlanta’s most famous cooking style is evolving, while keeping its famous soul.

Lynsey Weatherspoon Traditional African and African American ingredients like yams and cornmeal plus meat were the building blocks for meals that nourished body and soul (Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon)L ynsey Weatherspoon
Traditional African and African American ingredients like yams and cornmeal plus meat were the building blocks for meals that nourished body and soul (Credit: Lynsey Weatherspoon)

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