Searching for Soul Food

Name: Searching for Soul Food
Released: 2023-06-02
Rating: 6

Finding the flavors that connect us all.

2023 · TMDB 6.0/10 (5 votes)

Documentary Reality

Follow rock star celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds as she discovers what soul food looks like around the world. As she seeks out the food, she also explores the stories, the people, and the traditions of each place she visits, bringing her own flavor right along with her.

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About Searching for Soul Food

Follow rock star celebrity chef Alisa Reynolds as she discovers what soul food looks like around the world.

As she seeks out the food, she also explores the stories, the people, and the traditions of each place she visits, bringing her own flavor right along with her.

Status: Returning Series
TMDB rating: 6.0/10 from 5 votes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8

Seasons and episodes

The latest season with aired episodes is shown first. Specials are kept separate.

Latest aired season

Season 1

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S1 E1Jun 2, 2023

Mississippi

Chef Alisa Reynolds, French-trained with a soul food foundation, returns to the roots of the soul food story with a journey to Mississippi to uncover the origins and legacy of this American cuisine.

S1 E2Jun 2, 2023

Oklahoma

Chef Alisa heads to Oklahoma to meet and eat with Native Americans who are reconnecting to their heritage by restoring and reclaiming their food.

S1 E3Jun 2, 2023

Appalachia

Chef Alisa heads for the hills to uncover the heart and humanity beneath the stereotypes and behind the food of people in Appalachia.

S1 E4Jun 2, 2023

South Africa

In her first ever trip to The Motherland, Chef Alisa cooks and eats her way through Cape Town, South Africa, a city with a complex culture of food formed by an even more complicated history.

S1 E5Jun 2, 2023

Italy

Chef Alisa experiences the passion of Neapolitans for the dish perfected by its poorest people, that became of the most beloved comfort foods in the world.

S1 E6Jun 2, 2023

Jamaica

In Jamaica’s Portland parish, Chef leaves the beaches for higher ground to uncover the little-known story of resistance behind one of Jamaica’s most iconic foods.

S1 E7Jun 2, 2023

Peru

Chef Alisa dives into the diverse cultures that combined their culinary traditions with the natural bounty of Peru to elevate Lima into one of the culinary capitals of the world.

S1 E8Jun 2, 2023

Los Angeles

She’s been around the world and back again, and now Chef Alisa is seeing her own city with new eyes as she returns to the roots of LA food culture to find the source of its soul.