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  • Also, growing up in Seattle my grandfather would always take me to his favorite seafood restaurant, which was in Rainier Beach between a soul-food restaurant and a Hispanic grocer.

    Jamie Ford - An interview with author 2010

  • Vest, who has type 1 diabetes, is known for his Southern-style cuisine — much of which includes healthy takes on traditional soul-food dishes, such as sweet-potato pie and barbecue.

    A wedding without diabetes worries 2011

  • Primarily a collection of soul-food classics — fried chicken, braised collard greens, macaroni and cheese, sweet-potato pie and cornbread, to name a few — the volume is bolstered by essays on the role of African Americans in the evolution of American cookery.

    Family Kitchen: No matter what, pass that recipe down 2011

  • Locals and tourists alike are drawn to Sylvia's, the famed soul-food spot.

    Central Harlem Gains Ground, Aims for More Melanie Lefkowitz 2011

  • He also wrote a soul-food cookbook, hosted an annual music festival in Burbank and raised chickens and fancy pigeons.

    White R&B Legend Traveled 'Chitlin' Circuit' With Pride Stephen Miller 2012

  • For many years, even as Harlem gained new residential developments, its restaurant scene—with the exception of a few reknowned soul-food places—had lagged.

    Harlem Draws a Restaurant Crowd Amy Feldman 2011

  • Also, growing up in Seattle my grandfather would always take me to his favorite seafood restaurant, which was in Rainier Beach between a soul-food restaurant and a Hispanic grocer.

    Jamie Ford - An interview with author 2010

  • Mr. Cain said he remained a registered independent until three years later, when the late Republican leader Jack Kemp of New York invited him one afternoon to a political event at Sylvia's, the famed soul-food restaurant in Harlem.

    Herman Cain's Political Education Douglas A. Blackmon 2011

  • And for chicken and waffles and other soul-food dishes, there is Amy Ruth's on 116th Street.

    Tasting the Sweetness in Hamilton Heights Joseph De Avila 2011

  • Everyone (except Michaele) gets ready for a southern soul-food dinner with Aunt Frances, Stacie's godmother, who she says stepped in to help after her own mother died.

    Whose house is THAT?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#2, Aug. 12) 2010

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