Or, as culinary historian Leni Sorensen says toward the end of the film, about Lewis’ career in food, “It didn’t save the planet. It didn’t stop segregation. It didn’t stop lynching. [Lewis isn’t] ...

Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to ...