


Since then, she’s published Carla’s Comfort Foods: Favorite Dishes From Around the World and, most recently, Carla Hall’s Soul Food, in which she shares soul food’s history from Africa and Caribbean nations to the American South. Top Chef competitor and The Chew co-host Carla Hall published her first cookbook, Cooking With Love: Comfort Food That Hugs You, in 2012. “That they see what I see when I come to work-a dynamic, diverse community brought together by a shared appetite of fried chicken and for the kind of connections food can forge.” 5. “I like to think when people come to Brown Sugar Kitchen for the first time they see beyond the stereotype of West Oakland as a dangerous, dirty place,” Holland writes.

There’s black pea salad, andouille gougères, herbed mushroom spoon bread, and more. Brown Sugar Kitchen shares recipes from the acclaimed California restaurant of the same name, where Tanya Holland is owner and executive chef.
