The Arizona Republic recently released a list of 100 essential restaurants for 2025, including these five iconic Black-owned ...

Ed Masley The mother and son owners, Devan and Sharon Cunningham, have earned a huge following for their mix of Southern, Creole, Cajun and soul food. Devan worked at restaurants around the Valley ...

More recently, Lawrence "LT" Smith was named on Food and Wine's list of 13 Best New Chefs of 2024. Smith's menu is informed by the soul food of his upbringing in the southern United States and ...

Still, they were limited and at the mercy of their captors, as in the case of Posey, who was later forced to dig for clay before he self-emancipated in 1797. After Emancipation, soul food continued to ...