Searching for Soul Food

Finding the flavors that connect us all.

TV-142023•6.0/10

DocumentaryReality

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6.0/10(5)

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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Production

Woodman Park Productions, De La Revolución, Ventureland, Onyx Collective

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Status

Returning Series

First Aired

June 2, 2023

Last Aired

June 2, 2023

Networks

Hulu

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

Mississippi

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.

Oklahoma

Air date: 2023-06-02

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

Appalachia

Air date: 2023-06-02

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

South Africa

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.

Italy

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.

Jamaica

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.

Peru

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.

Los Angeles

Air date: 2023-06-02

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.