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Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland

by Tanya Holland
with Jan Newberry (text) & Jody Horton (photos). Chronicle. 2014. 224p. index. ISBN 9781452122342. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781452130637. COOKING
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After a foreword from novelist Michael Chabon, chef Holland presents more than 80 recipes from her restaurant Brown Sugar Kitchen, a popular breakfast and soul food destination in west Oakland, CA. Coauthoring this work with former San Francisco Magazine food and wine editor Newberry, Holland covers most courses, including beverages and briefly profiles some of the restaurant's suppliers and regular customers. Recipes feature Brown Sugar's signature cornmeal waffles with apple cider syrup, as well as such desirable Southern classics as buttermilk fried chicken, shrimp and chicken gumbo, blackened catfish, and down-home sweet potato pie.
VERDICT Bold and soulful Southern foods, gorgeously photographed by Horton, will have readers' stomachs rumbling.
Reviewed by Lisa Campbell , Dec 01, 2014
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