Tanya Holland Wants to Educate You About Soul Food

Tanya Holland dreamed of opening an upscale soul food restaurant before she trained at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in France. “I saw it as a genre that had not been brought into the contemporary eye,” she says. Today, she’s working hard to elevate the status of soul food through her buttermilk fried chicken and black-eyed pea salad as executive chef/owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland, Calif....