The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors

by Deborah Vantrece

Invigorating authentic Southern soul cooking with new inspiration, acclaimed chef Deborah VanTrece elevates classic comfort food into unique, surprising dishes worth celebrating.

Deborah VanTrece's Kansas City roots, wide travel, and celebrated career in Atlanta have gifted her with a uniquely rich way with food--keeping soulful recipes fresh and fun while honoring cultures, ingredients, and tradition. In her first cookbook, the Twisted Soul chef makes clear that soul cooking has always been as seasonally driven as la cucina povera, as versatile as California cuisine, and as impressive as French technique. In VanTrece's hands, familiar components become dramatic and dynamic dishes, and classic recipes reveal surprising twists.

Across bountiful chapters studded with vibrant photography, The Twisted Soul Cookbook offers almost 100 fresh salads and side dishes, generous main courses, exciting seafood, rich desserts, and brilliant pantry staples to enhance everyday cooking, including dressings, relishes, and sauces. VanTrece is an able teacher and storyteller, guiding the reader through techniques both simple and sophisticated.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Nonfiction

208 pages, Hardcover

Published March 16, 2021

Reviews

[Monique · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 stars and a standing ovation with a cast iron skillet! The Twisted Soul Cookbook by Deborah VanTrece is not your grandma’s soul food—unless your grandma had a passport, a culinary degree, and a flair for the dramatic. She takes Southern classics, gives them a passport stamp, and comes back with flavor fireworks. Every recipe is a remix with heart, heat, and high style. From Kansas City roots to ATL excellence, Chef VanTrece is serving soul with a twist—and I’m licking the pages like they owe me dinner.

[Michelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting recipes and lots of great ‘table scrap’ ideas for less choices pieces of food. Nice world twist on some.

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting recipes, more involved than I’m likely the try at home. I would like to go to her restaurant something though. I wish she had included her biscuit recipe though.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and fun book to read. Only a few recipes I will save to try--Fresh Kale & Cabbage Slaw, Deviled Egg Po-Boy, Gingersnap-Crusted Salmon, Avocado Hoecakes.

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

some very interesting fusion ideas and takes on classics
i loved the first section that is all about using less common cuts of meat!
would have liked more okra recipes

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting takes on soul food, but most were much too chef-y for me. Could also use MANY more pictures.