No amount of good food can nourish a starving soul.

I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good food is about feeling. Cooking is an art, not a science. You got to have soul to feed people right.' He smiled. 'That's what this is. Soul food.

All soul food is southern food, but not all southern food is soul food.