Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland (Soul Food Cookbook, Southern Style Cookbook, Recipe Book) Meat Cochon Butcher

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Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland (Soul Food Cookbook, Southern Style Cookbook, Recipe Book) Meat Cochon ButcherAuthor: Tanya Holland Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. 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. The 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