Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Soul food junkies [videorecording] / a film by Byron Hurt ; a co-production of God Bless the Child Productions and Independent Television Service (ITVS) in association with National Black Programming Consortium ; produced, directed and written by Byron Hurt.

Publisher, Date:

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS : Distributed by PBS Distribution, 2013.

Description:

1 videodisc (63 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.

Target Audience Note:

TV parental guidelines rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

African American cooking.

African Americans -- Food.

African Americans -- Social life and customs.

Food habits -- United States.

Food preferences -- United States.

Food -- Social aspects -- United States.

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.