food

Last year I spent Thanksgiving with—wait for it—17 people crammed into a two-bedroom, one-bathroom Jersey City…

Okay, okay, okay...we know this is a loaded topic this year, trust. Too many of us will not be partaking in the home…

Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith and Adrienne “Gammy” Banfield-Jones have been known to feed the soul at their red…

If you’re anything like The Root crew, month upon month of quarantine has deepened your relationship with your…

Let’s begin with a prayer:

I’m Black. I love Popeyes. My Black love for Popeyes is further proven by the fact that I want to put an apostrophe…

Somewhere I imagine there is a man at his computer utterly livid at the fact that Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben have…

We’ve long lived under the assumption that everything’s bigger when there’s a billionaire involved. But leave it to…

“I’ll do something that makes me happy.”

The coronavirus pandemic has seen businesses in all sectors face closures with the food industry being no exception.…

It’s Halloween so we thought we’d do something fun. But then, Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton strictly forbade me…

In case you’ve been living under a Chick-fil-A, Popeyes ushered in the apocalypse with its latest creation: a tender…

In the midst of the ongoing hullabaloo about Popeyes’ new chicken sandwich, we decided to settle a separate…

Citing rampant abuse and the increasing number of black barbecue-goers who mistakenly assumed that they were eating…

Every great soul food plate is symphonic in nature. There’s the rich medley of textures and flavor profiles: the…

Leah Chase, iconic executive chef, civil rights activist, and co-owner of the legendary Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in…

The ancient prophecies speak of a time when the forces of good will have to unite to fight the ultimate evil.…

This week we found out that unhealthy diets account for about 11 million deaths worldwide each year. Donald Trump…

After proudly becoming one of the largest metropolitan cities in the U.S. to be led by a black woman, Atlanta was…

By now, we’ve all seen it (if not, you should); a now-viral vintage clip of Oprah doing her talk show host best not…