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.

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.

Visiting the online home of Aqua Restaurant in Bath (UK) feels like going on a trip to Italy.You sense that there is more to this place than just food. Soul, ambiance and character must me part of the magic sauce.

We are soul-sucking creatures of kitsch. Flesh-eating zombies of conformity. Road-rage werewolves. Right-wing, talk show demons whose wrathful voices rage into empty air. Hungry ghosts wandering the aisles of supermarkets, convenience stores, restaurant chains and the food courts of shopping malls. We are: The Fat, Mindless Blobs That Ate the Plane