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Yellow Bowl Part 3

Yellow Bowl Part 3

Candied sweet potatoes, collard greens, and fried fish, Courtesy of Fred Opie

The Yellow Bowl Restaurant had been the place for down home soul food in Baltimore since the late 1960s. The term soul music and soul food became popular with activist Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), H. Rap Brown, Amiri Baraka and others during the black power and black arts movements of the late 1960s. Previous to then people called it simply southern food.

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Yellow Bowl Restaurant Part 2

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