Lindsey Williams: Taking Soul Food to a Whole ‘Nutha Level

This is a vintage selection from 2006 

The Banter

The Guys discuss their recent trip to the Bastianichs’ relatively new restaurant Del Posto in NYC. It manages to be opulent, friendly and “New York” all at once while serving delicious meals.

The Conversation

The Restaurant Guys connect with soul food royalty Lindsey Williams author of Neo Soul: Taking Soul Food to a Whole 'Nutha Level about his upbringing, rise, fall and what it’s like being back on top. Lindsey has found a way to continue family tradition with healthy versions of the soul food he was raised on to keep body and soul together a little bit longer.

The Inside Track

The Guys were impressed by Lindsey’s success in food, music and now as a cookbook author and how he draws on all of his experiences for his most recent gig. He made a lot of connections while in the music industry and he’s now a caterer to the stars.

Lindsey: Doing catering, doing an event, it's like almost shooting a video. You come up with the concept of the theme of the party and you give them that atmosphere. 

Francis: So not only do you have the food skills, you've also got LL Cool J's cell phone number, so that really helps.

-Lindsey Williams on The Restaurant Guys Podcast 2006

Bio

Lindsey Williams, is the grandson of Harlem's matriarch of soul food, Sylvia Woods. He grew up in the kitchen of his grandmother's legendary eatery, Sylvia's Restaurant, where he learned the art of authentic soul food cooking. He became a successful music producer and Executive Vice President of Urban Music at EMI Records before returning to the hospitality industry as a caterer.

Realizing that he could not continue living well at over 400 pounds, he completely changed his lifestyle and his diet, lost more than half his weight, and created his own brand of healthy soul food cooking. He wrote a cookbook Neo Soul: Taking Soul Food to a Whole 'Nutha Level.

He is a student at The Natural Gourmet Cooking School in New York City, and the owner of Neo Soul Events and Catering.

Info

Lindsey’s book
Neo Soul: Taking Soul Food to a Whole 'Nutha Level

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