I ate lunch at the best soul food place in my city today. I had a fried chicken breast, green beans, creamed corn, macaroni casserole (we call it macaroni pie down here), cornbread, and homemade strawberry shortcake to finish things off. The slice of fatback was the only seasoning I needed with the meal.

This place is a buffet...all you can eat for $9.00 including your drink. I can't abuse the buffet privileges because I'm watching my figure so I had very small portions of everything except the one chicken breast which was huge. I did go back for seconds on the beans and corn.

I passed on chicken livers and bbq ribs, turnip greens and mashed potatos and gravy and about 6 other desserts. If they'd had egg custard pie like they sometimes do I would have been in for a small slice of that.