Looks like several options:
http://www.google.com/#q=tampa+soul+food+restaurants
My favorite grocery store here in Alabama is a little place that was built in 1955 and always has the right supplies for making soul food. Inexpensive cuts of pork — neck bones, hocks, feet — turkey necks, bins with fresh greens when they’re in season, and nothing boutique whatsoever. The mix of shoppers is about 50/50 black and white and it is convivial.
Thanks for the tip, gotta check out those places one day. :)
And i just complained here on FR last week that I decry the huge influx of Mexicans into the neighborhood because I can rarely find my favorite cuts of meat. We now have pigs feet, a lot of strange cuts of meat. My cuts of steaks, roasts and pork have pgone down.
The mix of shoppers is about 50/50 black and white and it is convivial.
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In my long life, it’s true that blacks and whites in Southern States are much more assimilated than those in Northern areas. ...We’re neighbors, shop at the same places and laugh and joke with one another like good friends with the same beliefs. ...Very different from many blue States in the North.
I grew up on a family farm in south Mississippi. There is no such thing as ‘soul food’. It is simply the cuisine of the poor in the south, black and white. We all ate alike.