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One place I have been to so far is "Rono's" on 6 mile near Evergreen?
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Rono's has been strickly Jamaican since I was little, did they add to their menu?
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Just so I can follow everyones comments completely, are you talking about soul (African American) food, or African (ala Blue Nile Ethiopian) food?
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Red Sea Ypsilanti on washtenaw. better than blue nile and cheaper.
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I like them all, Jamaican, African, ethiopian, soul food (typical food: mac and cheese, chicken, corn bread, you know the rest).
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Africa?

(Sorry, I suppose I don't know what qualifies as 'African' food. It's a really big continent with lots of differing tastes.)
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How much cheaper and what are some of the good things on the menu? I like Jallof Rice.
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Good one 1953, really, I was trying to say different types of Afican or Jamaican foods
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Thanks JSMyers for beginning the differentiation discussion.......

History and culture
The style of cooking originated during slavery, when slaves were generally given only the "leftover" and "undesirable" cuts of meat (after the slaveowners had taken the choicest cuts), and had only the vegetables they grew for themselves. After slavery ended, many former slaves, being poor, could afford only off-cuts of meat, along with offal. Subsistence farming yielded fresh vegetables, and fishing and hunting provided fish and wild game, such as possum, rabbit, squirrel and sometimes waterfowl.

While soul food originated in the South, soul food restaurants—from fried chicken and fish "shacks" to upscale dining establishments—are in virtually every African American community in the nation, especially in cities with large African American populations, such as Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Poor whites and blacks in the South ate many of the same dishes, but styles of preparation sometimes varied. African American soul food generally tends to be spicier than Anglo-American cuisine.

With successive waves of immigration and the commingling of cultures, soul food continues to evolve, reflecting the greater cultural diversity of African peoples in America. A kind of "fusion cuisine" is beginning to develop—a mixture of African American, African, Afro-Latino and Afro-Caribbean ingredients and preparation styles and techniques that lend greater variety and complexity to the sights, aromas and flavors of the African American kitchen.

"The dominant figure in the cultural translation through food is the black woman. Her expressions of love, nurturance, creativity, sharing, patience, economic frustration, survival, and the very core of her African heritage are embodied in her meal preparation" (Hughes, p.272). Women preparing their dishes get a sense of pride as they watch their family devour the food they have prepared. They are happy when they have fulfilled the cravings of their loved ones. "Plumpness is a symbol of the wonderful job which she is performing. Even when her job occupation is food preparation for White America, her success symbol is plumpness. A big body to the Black woman represents health and prosperity" (Huges, p.273). Other than just a style of cooking, soul food, as the name imples, is an expression of the core of Black culture. "Having soul is knowing that when the human layers are peeled away there is a hidden, impenetrable gem, the sapphire" (Huges, p.275). Possessing and protecting this central core, it is crucial for survival. Another part of this central core is the sharing process.

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Cookbooks
Like most peasant cuisines, soul food has a mainly oral history. Early published soul food cookbooks were comprised of recipes collected and adapted by whites—often replete with mammy humor and racial stereotypes. However, since the mid-20th century, many cookbooks highlighting soul food and African American food ways compiled by African Americans have been published and well received. Vertamae Grosvenor's Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl, originally published in 1970, focused on South Carolina "lowcountry", Geechee, or Gullah, cooking. Its focus on spontaneity in the kitchen—cooking by "vibration"— rather than precisely measuring ingredients, captured the essence of traditional African American cooking techniques. The hearty, simple, healthy, basic ingredients of lowcountry cuisine, like shrimp, oysters, crab, fresh produce, rice and sweet potatoes, made it a bestseller. The first edition is now a classic cookbook collector's must-have.

At the center of African American food celebrations is the value of sharing. Likewise, African American cookbooks often have a common theme of family and family gatherings. Usher boards and Women's Day committees of various religious congregations large and small, and even public service and social welfare organizations, such as the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), have produced cookbooks to fund their operations and for charitable enterprises. The NCNW produced its first cookbook, The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro, in 1958, and revived the practice in 1993, producing a popular series of cookbooks featuring recipes by well-known and celebrity African Americans, among them: The Black Family Reunion Cookbook (1993), Celebrating Our Mothers' Kitchens: Treasured Memories and Tested Recipes (1994), and Mother Africa's Table: A Chronicle of Celebration (1998). The NCNW also recently reissued The Historical Cookbook.

Another organization, the Chicago-based Real Men Charities, Inc., in existence since the 1980s, sponsors food-based charitable and educational programs and activities around the nation. As its primary annual, celebrity-studded fundraiser, Real Men Charities sponsors "Real Men Cook" events and programs in 15 cities nationwide, where African American men gather to present their best recipes, some original, others handed down for generations, for charity. The event is timed to coincide roughly with Juneteenth and Father's Day and is promoted with the slogan "Every day is Family Day When Real Men Cook." In 2004, Real Men rolled out its Sweet Potato Pound Cake Mix in select food retail establishments in several cities, and published a cookbook in 2005 titled Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals and Recipes for Living. Proceeds from these events and from the cookbook help fund the organization's varied operations and activities.

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Soul food and health
Developed by rural people who lived in difficult, often impoverished conditions, many of whom had forced upon them lives of grinding physical labor, soul food is humble, hearty fare. Traditionally, soul food is cooked and seasoned with pork products, and fried dishes are usually cooked with either lard or hydrogenated vegetable oil, which is high in trans fats.

Unfortunately, frequent consumption of these ingredients without significant exercise or activity to counteract the high caloric intake often contributes to disproportionately high occurrences of obesity, hypertension, cardiac/circulatory problems and/or diabetes in African Americans, often resulting in a shortened lifespan. Additionally, trans fat consumption is a known contributor to cardiovascular disease.

As a result, many African Americans use methods of cooking soul food different from those employed by their grandparents, including using more healthful alternatives for frying (liquid vegetable oil or canola oil) and cooking and stewing using smoked turkey instead of pork.

Further, certain staples of a soul food diet have pronounced health benefits. Collard greens are known to be an excellent source of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A, B6 and C; manganese; iron; omega 3 fatty acids; calcium; folic acid; and fiber. They also contain a number of phytonutrients which play a role in the prevention of ovarian and breast cancer.[1] Peas, rice and legumes are excellent sources of cheap protein, with important vitamins, minerals and fiber. Sweet potatoes are an excellent source of beta carotene and trace minerals, as well, and have come to be classified as an "anti-diabetic" food. Recent animal studies have shown that sweet potatoes can stabilize blood sugar levels and lower insulin resistance.[2]

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Specialty food lines
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Dishes and ingredients
Soul food uses a great variety of dishes and ingredients, some unique, some shared with other cuisines.

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Meats
Country fried steak (beef deep fried in flour or batter, usually served with gravy)
Fried chicken (often fried with cornmeal breading or seasoned flour)
Chicken gizzards
Chicken livers
Chitterlings, or chitlins (the cleaned and prepared intestines of hogs, slow cooked and often eaten with vinegar and hot sauce; sometimes parboiled, then battered and fried)
Cracklins (commonly known as pork rinds and sometimes added to cornbread batter)
Fatback (fatty, cured, salted pork used to season meats and vegetables)
Fried fish (any of several varieties of fish—especially catfish but also whiting fish, porgies, bluegills—dredged in seasoned cornmeal and deep fried)
Ham hocks (smoked, used to flavor vegetables and legumes)
Hog maws (or hog jowls, sliced and usually cooked with chitterlings)
Hoghead cheese (made primarily from pig snouts, lips, and ears and frequently also referred to as "souse meat" or simply "souse")
Meatloaf (typically with a brown gravy)
Neckbones (beef neck bones seasoned and slow cooked)
Pigs' feet (slow cooked like chitterlings, sometimes pickled and, like chitterlings, often eaten with vinegar and hot sauce)
Ribs (usually pork, but can also be beef ribs)
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Vegetables
Black-eyed peas (cooked separately or with rice, as hoppin' john)
Greens (usually cooked with ham hocks; especially collard greens, mustard greens, turnip greens, or a combination thereof)
Lima beans (see butter beans)
Butter beans (immature lima beans, usually cooked in butter)
Mashed potatoes (usually with butter and condensed milk)
Okra (African vegetable eaten fried in cornmeal or stewed, often with tomatoes, corn, onions and hot peppers; Bantu for okra is ngombo, from which the Creole/soul food dish "gumbo" derives its name)
Red beans
Succotash (originally, a Native American dish of yellow corn and butter beans, usually cooked in butter)
Sweet potatoes (often parboiled, sliced and then baked, using sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter or margarine, commonly called "candied yams"; also boiled, then pureed and baked into pies)
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Other items
Biscuits (a shortbread similar to scones, commonly served with butter, jam, jelly, sorghum or cane syrup, or gravy; used to wipe up, or "sop," liquids from a dish)
Rice pudding, with rice and corn-based vanilla pudding.
Chow-chow (a spicy, homemade pickle relish sometimes made with okra, corn, cabbage, hot peppers, green tomatoes and other vegetables; commonly used to top black-eyed peas and otherwise as a condiment and side dish)
Cornbread (a shortbread often baked in an skillet, commonly seasoned with bacon fat)
Sweet bread (a food of Polynesian origin)
Grits (or "hominy grits", made from processed, dried, ground corn kernels and usually eaten as a breakfast food the consistency of porridge, but also served with fish and meat at dinnertime)
Hot sauce (a condiment of cayenne peppers, vinegar, salt, garlic and other spices often used on chitterlings, fried chicken and fish)
Macaroni and cheese
Milk and bread (a "po' folks' dessert-in-a-glass" of slightly crumbled cornbread, buttermilk and sugar)
Rice (ususally served with red beans and black-eyed peas)
Sorghum syrup (from sorghum, or "Guinea corn," a sweet grain indigenous to Africa introduced into the U.S. by African slaves in the early 17th century; see biscuits); frequently referred to as "sorghum molasses"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S oul_food
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There are a bunch of Jamaican restaurants on 6 mile you can try. There's about 3 of them just east of Greenfield.
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Thanks Zulu_Warrior you really know your stuff. Looking at the list below made me kinda hungry.
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I'm will assume you mean traditional caribean style dishes(which are dishes via Africa)__ which cater to natural herbs, chicken, spiced drinks etc. Unfortunately there is not many__ Blue Nile would be something to check out. Also, there is a place in Windsor that is similar.

African food in reference to Soul Food, here are a few fav's on tha' west side.

-Steve' Soul food 8443 Grandriver
-Motor-city Soul food W 7 mile
-Liz Tko W. 6 mile

bring ya' own hot-sauce and enjoy(smile)

super d(motordetroit)
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Liz Tko what are the cross streets?
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What about that Carribean place on Woodward and Baltimore (Milwaukee?)? I had carry out from there and it was pretty good. The name escapes me, though
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Dona Lola's on Springwells (Best Afro Latin Food)
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I believe, shafer and the lodge free-way.
(313)-342-9844

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Dday, I think that place is closed, if you are talking about that place on the other side of White Castles.
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Is that the number of the Liz Tko? Hmmmm?!
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yes!

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Sounds good!
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For good Ethiopian food, there is World Marathon on University Ave. in Windsor.

http://www.windsoreats.com/mar athon/
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My fave is Squindles on Wyoming near Puritan. As far as I understand it's Nigerian food, or at least the staples of that west African region.

Try the African yam porridge with tilapia.

(Message edited by Urban_shocker on December 01, 2005)
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Sounds good thanks! Do you know if they have Jollof Rice, that is one of my favorite dishes?
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Sure do.
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One more question, instead of me driving there without knowing the actual menu, would you happen to know the number of the place if you dont, thats OK its not mandatory.
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Even though it's not mandatory, I'm in a good mood:

http://www.google.com/search?h l=en&q=squindles+detroit
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There is another (Jamaican) place right on W 7 Mile east of the Southfield E way...

The name I believe is Jamaica, Jamaica...they offer the real deal as far as foods prepared and eaten in the islands. Very popular among Carribean and non Carribean peoples in the Detroit area...
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Thanks, Urban_Shock, I am glad that you are in a good mood!
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Soul food is downhome cooking,Jamacian food is in the same class as Caribbean (lol Carribean) food.What gets me is all these ethic groups outside of the Black race seem to think that they can cook like us Blacks.Yep they can cook KFC very well thanks to the Colonal,White Caskets (that will blow your gaskets) aka White Castles,McDevils,and Buger Ding is a proving ground where teens can learn to cook a hamburger.I am black and don't eat at Steve's,and its nothing like a real homecooked meal.That place on Woodward and Baltimore meals was so so,but nothing to write home about,and anytime a food joint closes they wasn't all that good.What one person might think is good to them may not be good to someone else.A good soul food here in the 2000's is hard to find,and one thing for sure there is whites and arabs who think they can cook Soul,Caribbean,/Jamaician food.Anyways each to their own taste.

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Brand new joint opened...Taste of Ethiopia. It's on Southfield Rd between 12 & 13 mile...across from Home Depot, in the Farmer Jack Plaza. Ate there tonight...I love Ethiopian.
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Eastside, you ever eaten at the Blue Nile in Ann Arbor? I ate there once a few years ago. Very expensive. Interesting, but not something I'll ever do again.
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I ate at the Blue Nile when they were located in Greektown. The food was great, but much too expensive.
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As I recall, there were only a couple of options, it was more of a "family style" meal. I was sent there with a friend for a cultural project for a class we were taking, and we really freaked out when we saw the prices. Neither of us could get out of there without spending $18-20 on our meal, which wasn't filling in the least. Tasty, but not $20 tasty. Especially when you don't have a lot of cash to spend.
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there was an review in the last metro times for Taste of Ethiopia...
http://www.metrotimes.com/guid e/restaurants/review.asp?id=96 16

i havent tried any african restaraunts yet. i've been trying to keep up with indian/middle-eastern/greek/me xican/chinese/japanese/korean/ thai/malaysian, and anything else delicious i can find.

i did get to a good cajun place (and i just found the menu!). i had a shrimp poboy, its like a submarine but 100x better than subway.

Andre's Louisiana Seafood Sandwhich Shop
752 West Huron, Pontiac, mi 248-858-8208
tue-sat 11-10 , sun 1-8, closed mondays

i reccomend the catfish or shrimp poboy and the sweet potato pie. they also have gumbo, jambalaya, oysters, etc.
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I really enjoy indian food! I remember trying some delicious indian food at the Comerica Taste Fest. I believe that it was curry chicken with mixed veggies.
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i love European Food~!
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Downtown there is Sizzle-n-Spice...an Indian joint on Monroe. They have an all you can eat buffet every weekday.
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...for $7.99
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$7.99 are you out of your mind?!


Sounds like a deal to me!
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SizzlenSpice is very good, I tried it last week - fantastic. Delicious hot nan.
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I have enjoyed many dinners at Sizzle-n-Spice on Monroe. The place has very little atmosphere; so don't go there expecting charm and fine decor. But if you're looking for good Indian food and a helpful staff, this is the place. I particularly like the curried cauliflower dish.
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Windsor's "Marathon Restaurant" has excellent Ethiopian food. Reasonable prices. On University Ave., 1/2 blk. west of Ouellette.
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Neilr, I couldn't agree more.....Food Great, decor needs help.....although they are expanding and adding 1,500 square feet of dining space, plus serving liquor......should be nice........

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