[Ads-l] Antedating of "Soul Food"

[Shapiro, Fred]

soul food (OED 1960 Dec. 29)

1960 Michigan Chronicle 18 June 10 (ProQuest)

Soul foods ... if you dig what I mean.  That's greens and hamhocks and ... ere ... Some nice neck-bones, beans, things like that.  [Ellipses are in original.]

Fred Shapiro

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