A little taste of Southern hospitality...

Vegheads came back in full force this week with our first (official) dinner of the semester: Southern Comfort food! We were partly inspired by a recent lecture at Oxy by the documentarian Byron Hurt about his newest film Soul Food Junkies, which examines the sociocultural ties and health threats of soul food. At the talk, he discussed the connections between food access, cultural bonds, food security, nutrition, and disease, saying that in order to stymie the declining health of our nation, we will need to re-examine our food system. Hear, hear! He also mentioned that there are plenty of healthy southern foods, but they are often forgotten. So our project this week was to dig up some forgotten southern gems.

Our menu:
Sweet tea
Collard greens, apple, red wine vinegar salad
Cornbread
Cajun spiced dirty rice with black eyed peas
Vegan okra gumbo
Traditional apple pie

End result? Seriously delicious, vegan, healthy, southern food. Hallelujah!