Black eyd peas, butter beans, ham hocks, chicken and rice, corn bread, homemade biscuits and gravy, fatback, hoecakes(real racist that one), fried cat fish, hushpuppies, calabash ANYTHING...ummm hmmmm.
Praise Lawd, that's some good eatin'.
And throw some spicy chow-chow on top of everything. lol
That sounds to me like regular old-style Southern cooking. Add chittlins and collard greens and I think distinctly ‘Soul Food’. Certainly you’d find that distinction in supposed Southern and Soul-Food restaurants up north.
Oh, and peach cobbler for dessert in both cases. not so much the watermellon for the soul food.