Grab a plate! Join us for a fantastic full-tasting experience catered by Pittsburgh's own soul food restaurant, Carmi Express, paired with storytelling on the true history of soul food by a James Beard Award-winning food historian. This dinner and dialogue will be anything but bland. Your ticket includes both the admission and meal.
You may think that you know the true history of soul food, but you probably don’t. Adrian Miller traces the journey of this cuisine from West Africa to the American West by showing what people of West African heritage ate before European contact, during The Middle Passage, during slavery in the American South, after Emancipation, and while migrating and settling in other parts of the United States, including Pittsburgh. Miller ends by identifying the current and future trends in soul food. In the end, you’ll see that soul food is healthier than its current image suggests. The material for this presentation is drawn from Miller's James Beard Award-winning book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time.
If you have any dietary restrictions or questions regarding the menu, please contact us.
Catered by Carmi Express
Main Course
Choose 1: Fried Chicken, Smoked Pork Ribs, Vegetarian Jambalaya
Side Dish
Choose 1: Baked Mac & Cheese, Candied Yams, Southern Cabbage with Smoked Chicken
Dessert
Choose 7: Sweet Potato Pie, Peach Cobbler, Banana Pudding, Cupcakes