Soul food restaurants and the Sunday-dinner economy

CTL-E-1309 · Practice · other · 1960–2026

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Black-owned soul food restaurants as everyday and Sunday institutions — multi-generational family operations serving smothered pork chops, fried chicken, catfish, greens, mac and cheese — and the practice of eating out after church. Family ownership across generations; resilience through debt and neighborhood change.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from LIFE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-LIFE-001:CTL-LIFE-E-045; source research type(s): practice.

Sources

Black Enterprise, "Oldest Chicago Soul Food Restaurant Celebrates 50th Anniversary"
Black Enterprise (2023-10-15) (primary source)

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