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Searching for Soul Food

Follows chef Alisa Reynolds as she explores the stories, people and traditions of different locations, discovering what soul food looks like around the world and bringing her own flavor with her.

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documentary, reality-tv

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Woodman Park Productions,De La Revolución Films,Ventureland,Onyx Collective

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https://www.hulu.com/series/searching-for-soul-food-8dff9ac3-6725-4a75-a618-5e379fdcca65

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♪ classical accordion music playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ classical accordion music playing ♪

♪ upbeat music playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ upbeat music playing ♪

♪ hip-hop music playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ hip-hop music playing ♪

♪ African music playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ African music playing ♪

♪ country guitar playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ country guitar playing ♪

Where the flavors
and the cultures are layered. - Searching for Soul Food

Where the flavors and the cultures are layered.

I'm neither one. [chuckles]
Let me just say that. - Searching for Soul Food

I'm neither one. [chuckles] Let me just say that.

People say L.A. has
a lot of flavor and no soul. - Searching for Soul Food

People say L.A. has a lot of flavor and no soul.

There's rednecks around here
but for the most part, - Searching for Soul Food

There's rednecks around here but for the most part,

♪ Can't do what we do ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ Can't do what we do ♪

We gonna peel 'em back
bit by bit, bite by bite. - Searching for Soul Food

We gonna peel 'em back bit by bit, bite by bite.

I'm Chef Alisa Reynolds,
classically trained, soul food raised. - Searching for Soul Food

I'm Chef Alisa Reynolds, classically trained, soul food...

♪ Searching for soul ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ Searching for soul ♪

At my restaurant in LA, - Searching for Soul Food

At my restaurant in LA,

I'm Chef Alisa Reynolds, - Searching for Soul Food

I'm Chef Alisa Reynolds,

Cuisine created with ingenuity
through struggle that nourished my people - Searching for Soul Food

Cuisine created with ingenuity through struggle that nourish...

At my restaurant in LA, - Searching for Soul Food

At my restaurant in LA,

Cuisine created
with ingenuity through struggle - Searching for Soul Food

Cuisine created with ingenuity through struggle

But as I traveled, - Searching for Soul Food

But as I traveled,

But as I traveled, - Searching for Soul Food

But as I traveled,

It's about making
something out of nothing, - Searching for Soul Food

It's about making something out of nothing,

It's about making something outta nothing
with sustenance and love in every bite, - Searching for Soul Food

It's about making something outta nothing with sustenan...

But as I traveled, that story translated
into so many other cuisines. - Searching for Soul Food

But as I traveled, that story translated into so many other ...

It's about making something out of nothing
with sustenance and love in every bite. - Searching for Soul Food

It's about making something out of nothing with sustena...

♪ Searching for soul ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ Searching for soul ♪

♪ Searching for soul ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ Searching for soul ♪

♪ Searching for soul ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ Searching for soul ♪

It can transport you
through time and space, - Searching for Soul Food

It can transport you through time and space,

I was born here. I was raised here. - Searching for Soul Food

I was born here. I was raised here.

That's what led me to Oklahoma,
the state that became home to 39 tribes - Searching for Soul Food

That's what led me to Oklahoma, the state that became h...

When I think about my home,
I think of everything - Searching for Soul Food

When I think about my home, I think of everything

The elders in my family tell me
that some of my ancestors are Choctaw. - Searching for Soul Food

The elders in my family tell me that some of my ancestors ar...

As a chef, I'm fascinated
with the rags-to-riches journey - Searching for Soul Food

As a chef, I'm fascinated with the rags-to-riches journ...

♪ bombastic music playing ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ bombastic music playing ♪

Here in Napoli, they really know
how to savor life's pleasures. - Searching for Soul Food

Here in Napoli, they really know how to savor life's pl...

But it is still alive in Oklahoma, - Searching for Soul Food

But it is still alive in Oklahoma,

And Cape Town, its oldest city, - Searching for Soul Food

And Cape Town, its oldest city,

And I'm here to learn how Native Americans
are reclaiming their sovereignty - Searching for Soul Food

And I'm here to learn how Native Americans are reclaimi...

And if I've learned anything on my search,
it's that soul food takes a village. - Searching for Soul Food

And if I've learned anything on my search, it's th...

- Food is something
that's going to bring back - Searching for Soul Food

- Food is something that's going to bring back

It takes communities coming together - Searching for Soul Food

It takes communities coming together

These have been
the most visible images of this place, - Searching for Soul Food

These have been the most visible images of this place,

Essentially, I feel like
I can taste my ancestors in it. - Searching for Soul Food

Essentially, I feel like I can taste my ancestors in it.

You wasn't worried
about banjo music, was you? [laughing] - Searching for Soul Food

You wasn't worried about banjo music, was you? [laughin...

- It's to share,
to keep our traditions alive - Searching for Soul Food

- It's to share, to keep our traditions alive

Enterprise and entrepreneurship - Searching for Soul Food

Enterprise and entrepreneurship

Now, let's talk about
all of these potatoes. - Searching for Soul Food

Now, let's talk about all of these potatoes.

ALISA:
It's actually a miracle - Searching for Soul Food

ALISA: It's actually a miracle

For centuries, Black South Africans
ate off the land that they farmed - Searching for Soul Food

For centuries, Black South Africans ate off the land that th...

I know because every day
I walk into my restaurant, - Searching for Soul Food

I know because every day I walk into my restaurant,

- How many potato varieties?
- We have like more than 3,000 varieties. - Searching for Soul Food

- How many potato varieties? - We have like more than 3,000 ...

Before the land grab,
the people who lived on this land - Searching for Soul Food

Before the land grab, the people who lived on this land

- Girl, knock it off, 3,000?
- Yeah, but not all of them you can eat. - Searching for Soul Food

- Girl, knock it off, 3,000? - Yeah, but not all of them you...

But in 1913, all that ended
when white lawmakers created the Land Act, - Searching for Soul Food

But in 1913, all that ended when white lawmakers created the...

And it's taken a lot of dreamers
to build the kind of restaurants - Searching for Soul Food

And it's taken a lot of dreamers to build the kind of r...

They gave to the land,
and the land gave back. - Searching for Soul Food

They gave to the land, and the land gave back.

Here, we have with this one,
it's called, "chuño." - Searching for Soul Food

Here, we have with this one, it's called, "chuño.&...

They did their dirty work in stages, - Searching for Soul Food

They did their dirty work in stages,

And that's why
I'm starting with this place, - Searching for Soul Food

And that's why I'm starting with this place,

- The smell is very funky.
- This is cr-- - Searching for Soul Food

- The smell is very funky. - This is cr--

Tell me a little bit about Mississippi - Searching for Soul Food

Tell me a little bit about Mississippi

[exclaims] - Searching for Soul Food

Eventually, they created
the Federal Indian Removal Act - Searching for Soul Food

Eventually, they created the Federal Indian Removal Act

Food traditions started to get mixed up
with a gang of other cultures - Searching for Soul Food

Food traditions started to get mixed up with a gang of other...

On the Trail of Tears, - Searching for Soul Food

On the Trail of Tears,

For 45 years, founder Woody Phillips
lured generations in L.A. - Searching for Soul Food

For 45 years, founder Woody Phillips lured generations in L....

This is the deepest part of the south.
ALISA: Mm. - Searching for Soul Food

This is the deepest part of the south. ALISA: Mm.

To his Crenshaw flagship, - Searching for Soul Food

To his Crenshaw flagship,

Everybody was living on top of each other - Searching for Soul Food

Everybody was living on top of each other

But the city mourned the loss of Mr. Woody
when he passed away in 2020. - Searching for Soul Food

But the city mourned the loss of Mr. Woody when he passed aw...

One huge part of our biodiversity
is to have the coast, Andes, and jungle. - Searching for Soul Food

One huge part of our biodiversity is to have the coast, Ande...

But then, here come the diversity haters
with that bullshit. - Searching for Soul Food

But then, here come the diversity haters with that bullshit.

ALISA: Right.
MAATI: And we have an answer for that. - Searching for Soul Food

ALISA: Right. MAATI: And we have an answer for that.

And then here comes Uncle Sam
with his pitiful ass, - Searching for Soul Food

And then here comes Uncle Sam with his pitiful ass,

I guess all that cultural exchange
smelled too damn good. - Searching for Soul Food

I guess all that cultural exchange smelled too damn good.

ALISA:
From the Pacific Ocean, - Searching for Soul Food

ALISA: From the Pacific Ocean,

We get oppressed, we get sad,
then we create the blues. - Searching for Soul Food

We get oppressed, we get sad, then we create the blues.

Twice a month, he's handing out
buckets of bullshit lard, - Searching for Soul Food

Twice a month, he's handing out buckets of bullshit lar...

Today, Woody's legacy is carried on - Searching for Soul Food

Today, Woody's legacy is carried on

Apartheid laws were enacted, - Searching for Soul Food

Apartheid laws were enacted,

♪ blues guitar music ♪ - Searching for Soul Food

♪ blues guitar music ♪

And as fate would have it,
I made a personal connection with Tracy - Searching for Soul Food

And as fate would have it, I made a personal connection with...

And they held onto these traditions
as best they could - Searching for Soul Food

And they held onto these traditions as best they could

And in some cases, they made
sharing with other cultures illegal. - Searching for Soul Food

And in some cases, they made sharing with other cultures ill...

A compromise to save
what was left of the culture. - Searching for Soul Food

A compromise to save what was left of the culture.

To get past the sharing police, - Searching for Soul Food

To get past the sharing police,

I just knew, wow, this is divine,
that I actually organically meet - Searching for Soul Food

I just knew, wow, this is divine, that I actually organicall...

Hmm. Sound familiar? I'm just saying. - Searching for Soul Food

Hmm. Sound familiar? I'm just saying.

And I'm here to get a taste
of all those ingredients - Searching for Soul Food

And I'm here to get a taste of all those ingredients

...it is both our celebration
and it's our survival. - Searching for Soul Food

...it is both our celebration and it's our survival.

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Follows chef Alisa Reynolds as she explores the stories, people and traditions of different locations, discovering what soul food looks like around the world and bringing her own flavor with her.

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Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Production: Woodman Park Productions,De La Revolución Films,Ventureland,Onyx Collective

Genre: documentary, reality-tv

Year: 2023

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 8.1

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Released: 02 Jun 2023

Awards: N/A

Homepage: https://www.hulu.com/series/searching-for-soul-food-8dff9ac3-6725-4a75-a618-5e379fdcca65