We Eat to Remember: Soul Food Poetry
by Fabu Phillis Carter

We Eat to Remember: Soul Food Poetry is about the historical and cultural connections that Black people, especially in the United States, have to our food, spices and farming. Our choices have their origins in Africa, were shaped by the slave experience, and continue to evolve as Soul Food. These 101 poems, in five sections, start with our collective and personal experiences with food in Africa that travelled with us to North America. These poems are intimate, gripping, thought provoking and joyous. We eat cultural foods to remember who we are and where we came from. We never want to forget, the truth of who we are as a people.