Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt created a documentary film journey to learn more about the African American cuisine known as soul food. Here’s a sample menu: fried chicken, black-eyed peas, candied yams, and banana pudding for dessert. What’s not to love? The flavors are an enticing blend of West African and Deep American Southern cuisines.

Hurt’s resulting work, “Soul Food Junkies,” is a rich exploration of history, humor, and stories about this cuisine’s soul-warming and cultural benefits as well as possible health consequences.