'Chopped' champ a soul food specialist
theGRIO REPORT - Chef Wayne Lyons is best known for his soul food creations and winning Food Network’s Chopped Season 7...
'Soul Food Junkies' film explores pleasures, perils of black cooking
EURWEB - Airing in January as part of the network’s Independent Lens series, the film from director Byron Hurt serves up such satisfying-yet-not-so-heart friendly soul food staples as fried chicken, ribs, collard greens, mac and cheese, cornbread, peach cobbler and more...
Tracey Edmonds: 'Women can have it all'
Tracey Edmonds story is far more complicated, far less sensational than most will want to admit — and probably wouldn’t be so easy to dismiss if she weren’t a beautiful woman.
Sylvia Woods: The soul food queen's life in pictures
The reigning Queen of Soul Food for 50 years, Ms. Woods presided over her namesake Harlem restaurant feeding dignitaries, tourists, and locals alike with recipes perfected over time and always served with a generous side of kindness and warmth.
Harlem residents reflect on beloved soul food queen Sylvia Woods
NEW YORK (AP) - Sylvia Woods, the founder of the famed Harlem soul food restaurant that bears her name, was remembered Tuesday by her patrons and friends as a warm and welcoming trailblazer who turned her small eatery into a bustling city gem...
Roblé honors 'Queen of Soul Food'
OPINION - Yesterday we lost the 'Queen of Soul Food,' Ms. Sylvia Woods. Sylvia was nothing short of an inspiration to me...
Toni Morrison's 'Home' is where her heart is
REVIEW - With 'Home', Morrison continues to beg the reader to reflect critically on notions of identity, race, gender and class, and, perhaps most importantly, to examine what me mean when we talk about freedom...
Flavor Flav opening Vegas fried chicken restaurant
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Entertainer and reality TV star Flavor Flav is returning to Las Vegas to open a fried chicken and soul food takeout restaurant...
Sharpton sets example with 100 lb weight loss
theGRIO REPORT - He's lost over 100 pounds and is determined to keep it off. Even President Barack Obama recently urged him to 'go ahead and let loose a bit on Thanksgiving'...
Fox may bring back Showtime's 'Soul Food'
CLUTCH - Word on the street is Fox is looking to revive the popular Showtime series 'Soul Food,' based on the hit 1997 film...
