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BOOK CLUB OFFERS SERIES ON ‘SOUL FOOD’ HISTORY

Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:36 AM CDT

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The Harbor City Book Club is announcing a series of presentations by Dr. Leni Sorensen on the multi-cultural history of “soul food.”

Partnering with the Pine Bluff High School History Club and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s Freshman Speaker Series, Harbor City will host “Food For Thought: Reclaiming the Roots of Soul Food” from 7:55 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Monday and on Tuesday from 11:38 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. in the PBHS Little Theater.

Sorensen will make an appearance and presentation at the Hathaway-Howard Fine Arts auditorium on the UAPB campus at 11 a.m. Thursday.

Sorensen is a professor and historian at Monticello, the home of President Thomas Jefferson in Virginia. She brings her love of history, farming and cooking to present an informative, hands-on and entertaining look at how soul food was created and how to bring back earlier, healthier and tastier ingredients into our soul food cooking.

The Harbor City Book Club thanks the Pine Bluff Area Community Foundation for sponsoring the presentations. The HCBC also thanks PBHS’s history and art clubs, UAPB and the Pine Bluff Alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. for their support.

“Please come join us as we prepare for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays with a new and exciting look at how to prepare our favorite dishes,” said a Harbor City spokesman.

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