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Soul Food Made Easier

Recipes, practical kitchen tools, stories and the food traditions we love.

Heritage Kitchen celebrates soul food as a living Black American culinary tradition — the Sunday dinners, holiday tables and everyday pots that generations of cooks have carried forward.

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Recipes: 37
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A table spread with baked macaroni and cheese, collard greens and cornbread

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Soul Food Serving Calculator

Know exactly how much fried chicken, greens, and mac to make — no guessing, no leftovers gone to waste.

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Mac & Cheese Calculator

Get the right amount of pasta, cheese, and dairy for a baked mac that feeds your whole table.

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Golden baked macaroni and cheese fresh from the oven

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From baked macaroni and cheese to collard greens and sweet potato pie, build your menu, estimate servings, and organize your shopping list in one place.

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Baked macaroni and cheese with a golden browned top in a ceramic baking dish

Side Dishes

Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese

Creamy, cheesy and baked until bubbling — the pan that disappears first at Sunday dinner.

55 minServes 8

Side Dishes

Collard Greens with Smoked Turkey

Tender greens simmered with smoked turkey until the pot likker is worth sipping.

1 hr 20 minServes 8

Candied yams in a glossy butter and brown sugar syrup in a Dutch oven

Side Dishes

Southern Candied Yams

Sweet potatoes braised in butter, brown sugar and vanilla until the syrup thickens and clings to every slice.

55 minServes 8

Side Dishes

Honey Cornbread

Crackly golden top, tender crumb and a honey-butter finish — the cornbread that soaks up pot likker without falling apart.

32 minServes 9

A 9x13 dish of Southern cornbread dressing with a golden browned top and soft savory interior

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Southern Cornbread Dressing with Chicken

Crumbled cornbread and shredded chicken baked until the edges crisp and the center stays spoon-soft — the dish everyone checks for first at Thanksgiving.

1 hr 15 minServes 12

A sliced three-layer red velvet cake with deep red crumb and thick white frosting on a holiday table

Desserts

Old-Fashioned Southern Red Velvet Cake

Deep red cocoa crumb layered with tangy cream cheese frosting — the cake that shows up at Christmas and birthday suppers.

1 hr 55 minServes 12

A multigenerational Black family passing dishes around a Sunday dinner table

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Know how much to cook before you shop

Whether it is Sunday dinner for ten or a holiday table for forty, our kitchen calculators estimate how much of each dish you need — macaroni, greens, cornbread, peas, meat and more — based on your guest count and menu.