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Are Soul Food Restaurants Dying All Over the Country? A Serious Eats Poll

The New York Times notes that many traditional soul food restaurants have closed in Harlem as victims of the neighborhood's changing tastes. Is this trend is going on in other non-Southern cities with well-established African-American neighborhoods.

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23 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, August 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM
Tagged: Harlem, New York City, New York Times, soul food

Bill O'Reilly as Soul Food Restaurant Critic

We hope Frank Bruni won't feel threatened by Bill O'Reilly's stunning review of well-known Harlem restaurant Sylvia's. Take a listen, Frank. O'Reilly's willfully ignorant observations about African-American culture in general show just how uninformed he is about anything outside his own narrow set of experiences. O'Reilly was amazed that eating at Sylvia's was just like eating at an Italian restaurant. That is astonishing, Bill....

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4 Comments | Posted by Ed Levine, September 26, 2007 at 6:45 PM
Tagged: Bill O'Reilly, Harlem, Manhattan, NYC, Sylvia's