Tanya Holland’s 'California Soul' Celebrates the Food and Stories of the Great Migration

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🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Chef Tanya Holland’s new cookbook – like her family – is rooted in the people and the food of the historical migration from the South to the West. Holland, legendary for her former West Oakland soul food restaurant Brown Sugar Kitchen, weaves recipes with stories of California’s Black culinary pioneers and food industry entrepreneurs in her new cookbook, “California Soul: Recipes from a Culinary Journey West”. We talk with her about the stories that food holds and her California Soul. Guests: Tanya Holland, author, "California Soul" and "Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland;" host, "Tanya's Kitchen Table" on the Opra. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.5	For many years, brown sugar kitchen in West Oakland was a beautiful,
0:54.9	sweet generous restaurant. Owned by Tanya Holland, a black woman, it served soul food, but
0:59.8	soul food made by a French train chef. Its location was important, too. Until 1989, it would
1:05.4	have cowered in the shadow of the cypress structure, the freeway that sliced West Oakland in half.
1:10.5	But the community fought to build Mandela Parkway there instead,
1:13.8	and here was a realization of the vision of those activists,
1:17.1	a thriving, black-owned community-building restaurant.
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