The Wall Street Journal reports that high-end restaurants are now serving low-end favorites, in Down-Home No More: Soul Food Moves On Up:
Down-home soul food has gone uptown. The cholesterol-packed, well-seasoned cuisine once found only in Southern kitchens is turning up in pricey eateries from New York to Los Angeles. With ethnic food one of the restaurant industry’s major growth areas, soul food is the fifth most-sampled ethnic cuisine, according to the National Restaurant Association, ahead of such trendy favorites as Cajun/Creole (No. 6), Thai (No. 11) and Indian (No. 12).
I may have to go out and cast another vote for Indian food this weekend.