After a team of four judges determined the winners of the bread, meat, vegetable and dessert categories, a crowd of students, parents and teachers grubbed on a feast of home-cooked goodies.

Soul food is a traditional cuisine "handed down from our ancestors," said Thomas Keith, a Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School teacher who helped judge the cookoff. Soul food is "home-cooked and preferably made from scratch," he added.  more >>