Soul food cooking in migration-era Chicago

CTL-E-1289 · Practice · other · 1915–1979

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Southern culinary traditions carried north in the Great Migration — fried chicken and fish, barbecue, chitterlings, souse, greens, cornbread — first stigmatized by the Black middle class, later embraced as racial identity; adapted to urban kitchens, hot plates, and eventually canned/frozen foods.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-023; source research type(s): practice.

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