Brown Sugar Kitchen New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland (Soul Food Cookbook, Southern Style Cookbook, Recipe Book)

Acclaimed chef, restaurateur, and podcaster Tanya Holland shares 86 recipes and stories from her celebrated Bay Area soul-food outpost, Brown Sugar Kitchen, which served as a community gathering spot and the heart of West Oakland for fifteen years. The cookbook offers home cooks a way to recreate restaurant favorites like Shrimp Gumbo, Macaroni & Cheese, and a show-stopping Caramel Layer Cake with Brown Butter-Caramel Frosting. Holland's recipes give soul-food classics a modern spin, using locally grown, seasonal produce in creative dishes such as Romaine with Spring Vegetables & Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing and B-Side BBQ Braised Smoked Tofu. The book also features rich visual storytelling that captures the sense and flavor of West Oakland and the people who made the restaurant what it was.

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