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 Hulu's Searching for Soul Food is a love letter to soul food around the world. Though often equated with the comfort cuisine of the American South, chef Alisa Reynolds travels the world in this eight-episode series to expand your mind and palate and broaden the definition of what we consider to be soul food. Opening shot: An animated collage appears on the screen with old photos of our hostess, Alisa Reynolds, when she was a younger chef and when she was a child. On one side of it are a French flag and images of classic French cooking, and on the other side of it are illustrations of a crayfish, a boombox, and a woman with an afro. She narrates: “I am chef Alisa Reynolds: classically trained, raised on soul food. At my restaurant in Los Angeles, I apply my classical training to what I know: soul food." Star: Alisa Reynolds The Gist: Reynolds begins this series in Mississippi, the heart of the American South and slavery, to begin his story of the origins of soul food. This is ...