Sweet Potato Soul: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul - Softcover

Jenne Claiborne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451498895 ISBN 13: 9780451498892

Publisher: Harmony, 2018

Synopsis

100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with full-color photography.

Jenné Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Food--fluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato pie--but thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent years tweaking and experimenting to infuse plant-based, life-giving, glow-worthy foods with the flavor and depth that feeds the soul.

In Sweet Potato Soul, Jenné revives the long tradition of using fresh, local ingredients creatively in dishes like Coconut Collard Salad and Fried Cauliflower Chicken. She improvises new flavors in Peach Date BBQ Jackfruit Sliders and Sweet Potato-Tahini Cookies. She celebrates the plant-based roots of the cuisine in Bootylicious Gumbo and savory-sweet Georgia Watermelon & Peach Salad. And she updates classics with Jalapeño Hush Puppies, and her favorite, Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls.

Along the way, Jenné explores the narratives surrounding iconic and beloved soul food recipes, as well as their innate nutritional benefits--you've heard that dandelion, mustard, and turnip greens, okra, and black eyed peas are nutrition superstars, but here's how to make them super tasty, too.

From decadent pound cakes and ginger-kissed fruit cobblers to smokey collard greens, amazing crabcakes and the most comforting sweet potato pie you'll ever taste, these better-than-the-original takes on crave-worthy dishes are good for your health, heart, and soul.

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Review

"Sweet Potato Soul starts with an Erykah Badu quote and ends with a recipe for pecan muhammara. Clearly, there's a lot to love. The debut cookbook from beloved vegan food blogger Jenné Claiborne, Sweet Potato Soul offers vegan twists on soul food classics alongside memories of Claiborne flipping fluffy pancakes to the sound of gospel music in her Nana's kitchen. Fittingly, a wonderfully comprehensive section on southern pantry staples devotes almost 6 full pages to sweet potatoes varietals. What looks good: Fluffy sweet potato biscuits, coconut collard salad, "Harlem caviar" black eyed pea salad, Creole red bean sausages, and jackfruit jambalaya." - Bon Appetit

"Many traditional dishes are off-limits to a vegetarian or vegan, but the smart use of spices and other ingredients can bring them back within reach. This is just what Jenné Claiborne does so beautifully in her new book, Sweet Potato Soul. Claiborne brings Southern flair... to plant-based dishes. That means shredded sweet potatoes and pecans in her granola, coconut three ways (oil, milk and sugar) in her peach cobbler and oyster mushrooms in her étouffée. ...I knew it was the real deal when my fiance, whose people come from Louisiana, took one bite and put down his spoon -- so he could take a photo." - Washington Post

"Jenné makes a vegan lifestyle look easy--not to mention totally delicious. Her tips and recipe roundups are super-practical for vegans and non-vegans alike." - Rachael Ray Every Day

"How a superstar vegan chef is making soul food healthy." - Well+Good

"Prepare to be mesmerized by swirls of breakfast glory....Jenné Claiborne made us forget everything with her sweet potato-pecan cinnamon rolls and equally root veg-ified cream cheese frosting...[W]hile each of the 100 recipes stands out in its own way, we love her take on the comforting classic." - Tasting Table

"Jenné Claiborne finds creative ways to blend her love of Southern food with a vegan diet in her new cookbook." - San Diego Union Tribune

"In her first cookbook, Jenné has cracked the code." - Design Sponge

"A delightful little book full of inventive vegan recipes that don't skimp on flavor." - Atlanta Journal Constitution

"One potato, two potato, give me all your sweet potatoes!! Jenne has crafted the best soul satisfying comfort vegan recipes. With easy recipes such as sweet potato hummus, Bourbon BBQ Tempeh Sliders, Fried Cauliflower Chicken, and really stellar vegan pound cakes you can bring the very best dishes from Atlanta, Georgia right into your own kitchen!" - Chloe Coscarelli, author of Chloe Flavor and Chloe's Kitchen

"We've all been waiting for this! Jenné Claiborne's Sweet Potato Soul cookbook is an absolute dream for anyone craving Southern flavours and soul food classics. Hearty, inviting, and always delicious, Jenné's recipes prove time and time again that stick-to-your-ribs eating can be completely plant-based! This mouth-watering collection uses whole food ingredients and simple techniques to recreate quintessential recipes like cornbread, sweet potato pie, and collards galore! Jenné's bright spirit and genuine love of sharing healthy food from her roots shines through on every page." - Sarah Britton, Holisitic Nutritionist and founder of My New Roots

"Jenné has done an incredible job of compiling all of her favorite vegan soul food classics in this stunning cookbook. Vegans and those curious about plant-based eating will love the beautiful images, recipes, and thoughtful narrative in this book. I can't wait to dig in (especially to Nana's Sweet Potato Pie)!" - Dana Shultz, author of Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking

"Jenné cooks up a fresh take on one of my all time favorite cuisines, vegan soul food, seasoned with her personal anecdotes and can-do approach toward healthy eating for everyone." - Terry Hope Romero, author of Veganomicon, Salad Samurai, and Vegan Eats World

"Jenné Claiborne knows how to make ingredients sing. Tasty, fresh, soulful -- you won't even realize these brilliant recipes are vegan!" - John Mackey, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Whole Foods Market

"If comfort food wasn't born in the South, it grew up there. Now culinary wunderkind Jenne Claiborne perfects this culinary genre: hearty, satisfying, all's-right-with-the-world dishes that are kind to animals and the planet, and that will make your waistline and arteries as happy as they'll make your family." - Victoria Moran, author of Main Street Vegan, and coauthor of The Main Street Vegan Academy Cookbook

"Jenné has cooked up something special in her debut cookbook, proving that Soul food can be compassionate to the environment and to animals while tasting great--in fact, better than ever!" - Gene Baur, president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, and author of Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food

About the Author

JENNE CLAIBORNE is a NYC-based vegan personal chef, cooking instructor, and the blogger behind Sweet Potato Soul, with over 200,000 followers on social media. She studied at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and founded the personal chef company, The Nourishing Vegan, whose clients have included India Arie, Lucy Liu, Lululemon, Soho House, Whole Foods, and many more. Jenné has been on Today, and her recipes and nutritional advice have been featured in VegNews, the Vegetarian Times, Shape.com, the Huffington Post, Reader's Digest, ThoughtfullyMagazine, Greatist, Well+Good, Laika magazine, Urban Bush Babes, Main Street Vegan, Our Hen House, and Refinery 29. She is the cocreator of Buddhalicious, an online meal planning service that makes it easy for people to adopt a healthy and delicious vegan diet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harmony
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0451498895
• ISBN 13: 9780451498892
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224