Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland (Soul Food Cookbook, Southern Style Cookbook, Recipe Book)
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And these aren't all stick-to-your-ribs recipes: Tanya's interpretations of soul food star locally grown, seasonal produce, too, in crisp, creative salads such as Romaine with Spring Vegetables \u0026amp; Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing and Summer Squash Succotash. Soul-food classics get a modern spin in the case of B-Side BBQ Braised Smoked Tofu with Roasted Eggplant and a side of Roasted Green Beans with Sesame-Seed Dressing. 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This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers congregate on long benches and sprawl in the grass, soaking up the sunshine, sipping at steaming mugs of Oakland-roasted coffee, waiting to snag one of the tables they glimpse through the swinging doors. Deals are done, friends are made; this is a community in action. In short order, they'll get their table, their pecan-studded sticky buns, their meaty hash topped with a quivering poached egg. Later in the day, the line grows, and the orders for chef-owner Tanya Holland's famous chicken and waffles or oyster po'boy fly. This is when satisfaction arrives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrown Sugar Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, the cookbook, stars 86 recipes for re-creating the restaurant's favorites at home, from a thick Shrimp Gumbo to celebrated Macaroni \u0026amp; Cheese to a show-stopping Caramel Layer Cake with Brown Butter-Caramel Frosting. And these aren't all stick-to-your-ribs recipes: Tanya's interpretations of soul food star locally grown, seasonal produce, too, in crisp, creative salads such as Romaine with Spring Vegetables \u0026amp; Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing and Summer Squash Succotash. Soul-food classics get a modern spin in the case of B-Side BBQ Braised Smoked Tofu with Roasted Eggplant and a side of Roasted Green Beans with Sesame-Seed Dressing. Straight-forward, unfussy but inspired, these are recipes you'll turn to again and again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich visual storytelling reveals the food and the people that made and make West Oakland what it is today. \u003ci\u003eBrown Sugar Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e truly captures the sense--and flavor--of this richly textured and delicious place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTanya Holland is the executive chef and owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen and B-Side BBQ in West Oakland, CA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJan Newberry is a food writer and former \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e food and wine editor based in Oakland, CA. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJody Horton is a food photographer based in Austin, TX. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than 14 novels, novellas, and essay and short story collections, including \u003ci\u003eThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTelegraph Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Berkeley, CA.\u003cbr\u003e"}
