Table Talk: At Harbor House, soul food helps heal the mind, body
Portrait of Chef Eli Townsend during Memphis Metal Museum Iron Casting Workshop Weekend in the French Fort District of Downtown Memphis on Monday, March 11, 2024. (Ziggy Mack/Special to the Daily Memphian file)
A voice echoes throughout a small building calling residents to mealtime. One by one, men step into the kitchen to claim a paper plate of homemade food served daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And each meal is made with the “heart of soul food,” according to the chef.
But the meals aren’t prepared in traditional ways.
“Guess what?” Eli Townsend asked. “I don’t use salt at all in that kitchen.”
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Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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