/ck/ - Food & Cooking

How much do you average out per day on food? Just started budgeting a bit and am at about $50/day (no kids) but I do have a partner.

>Slaves were typically given a peck of cornmeal and 3-4 pounds of pork per week, and from those rations come soul food staples such as cornbread, fried catfish, BBQ ribs, chitterlings, and neckbones. It has been noted that enslaved Africans were the primary consumers of cooked greens (collards, beets, dandelion, kale, and purslane) and sweet potatoes for a portion of US history.

>Slaves needed to eat foods with high amounts of calories to balance out spending long days working in the fields. This led to time-honored soul food traditions like frying foods, breading meats and fishes with cornmeal, and mixing meats with vegetables (i.e. putting pork in collard greens). Eventually, this slave-invented style of cooking started to get adopted into larger Southern culture, as slave owners gave special privileges to slaves with cooking skills.

Is Soul Food the most unique and interesting cuisine in existence?

Is there a more overrated cuisine than soul food? Collards are salty, worse spinach, fried chicken is whatever. I'm sick of this meme food.