Soul food is an American cuisine, a selection of foods, typically associated with African Americans of the Southern United States. In the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement was just beginning, "soul" was a common adjective used to describe African American culture, and thus the name "soul food" was derived.

Atlanta is a great place to be a vegetarian or vegan. There are many restaurants offering a wide variety of meatless, vegetarian and/or vegan cuisine, from Mediterranian to Asian, soul food to American Southwestern. Here is a sampling of what awaits the visitor at Atlanta's favorite vegetarian establishments.

Delicious and easy to make soul food recipes presented in a mouth watering photo gallery.

A kid with heart, soul and brains figures out a way to change legislation that demands restaurants throw food away.

An enlightening, entertaining, slightly ghetto-fabulous Vegan food blog...chalk full of recipes, vegan/vegetarian restaurant adventures, and musings of a vegan/vegetarian mind and soul.

It used to be that the best way for a San Franciscan to satisfy a hankering for Creole food would be to hop on a plane and hightail it straight to the Big Easy. That is, until Brenda's French Soul Food opened this year on Polk Street.