A book with a strong sense of place, authority, and playfulness for those who feel outsized love for Brown Sugar Kitchen and the avid fans of Southern cooking and barbecue cookbooks, this is a restaurant book with an accessible author and an even stronger sense of place and community. This restaurant book celebrates its home in West Oakland with visual storytelling in addition to 75 recipes and sidebars that introduce us to the characters, history, and happenings that make BSK special. Recipes are for soul food rooted in traditional Southern foodways, but reflecting the migration of those foodways North (Tanya is from Rochester, NY), and infused with the Bay Area ethos (locally-sourced, respect for ingredients, interpreted by a La Varenne-trained chef).