Is Southern Country Cooking aka Soul Food considered an Ethnic Cuisine?

Question

The Hispanic Culture brought us Tex-Mex and Tex-Mex certainly has rural roots in West Texas/Northern New Mexico. So why not Southern Rural claim "Ethnic Cuisine" status. And please ......have fun if you are insecure......but I would prefer serious thoughtful answers.

Marquie the two are not different but in name only. Collar greens and hot water corn bread are cooked the same way in Southern Cooking and in Soul Food as is Fried Chicken. To paraphrase Sharespear.....Southern Cooking/Soul Food by any other name would taste just as good.

Over druged the Spanish were in North America 100 years before the first Englishmen/Frenchmen/African Americans came here.

Answer 1

OMG, I'm living in Greece which has wonderful food, but your question reminds me of chittlings, hog maws, stew beef and rice, potato salad, fried fish, greens ...... It's time to go home for a while!!!

Answer 2

I've always considered it Ethnic Cuisine, especially Soul Food. Since ethnicity is defined as: a human population whose members identify with each other, usually on the basis of a presumed common genealogy or ancestry (Smith, 1986). Ethnic groups are also usually united by common cultural, behavioural, linguistic, or religious practices. In this sense, an ethnic group is also a cultural community, soul food's roots in Southern or African American culture applies here.

Answer 3

It use to be considered ethnic cuisine, but know since others are eating it is now called comfort food. You know the same way braids hairstyles became the Bo Derek after they were seen in the movie 10, but African American have been wearing braids for centuries.

Answer 4

i have always thought of soul food as ethnic cuisine...as a soul food cook(and a damn good one i might add) i am very proud of the flavors and tastes that the south are known for...i mean think of it...who else on the planet but a true southerner can think of a 101 ways to cook every part of the hog?

Answer 5

I may be wrong on this but i believe that "Soul Food" &"Southern Cooking" are 2 different types of cooking & this is only my opinion.
I believe that "Soul Food" is ethnic cuisine while "Southern is more like a geographic type of cuisine. It also is simular to midwestern cooking.

Answer 6

Soul food is considered an Ethnic Cuisine! God bless

Answer 7

Soul food been here long before Tex Mex. so the answer is yes.
also it's better

Answer 8

because all the smells intertwine when they cook and smell good. it's not hard to make food smell good. it's harder to make food taste good. my neighbors are full chinese i believe doubt they came from America but their house is a total pig sty. theirs crap they bring home from work all over their front yard and back yard and it's all broken things like tables, fridge, washing machines,etc.. but from time to time when they are cooking it smells really good. but i highly doubt it tastes that good. why? just walk infront of their door step and you will understand why theirs craps everywhere including dead plants/animals decaying like fish. Im sure they don't shop at a real grocery store either but the local china town and everyone in my state knows the china town isn;t very good for groceries as it's been known to carry rats and it isn't even that tasty. that being said don't let the smells fool you.

Answer 9

I've always found southern country cooking gross, but I've always considered it a type of ethnic food (just like all other foods)

Answer 10

I don't know how I'd consider to put it, but I'd consider it more of a regional cuisine.