“The Twisted Soul Cookbook is a fun and funky combination of uptown, downtown, urban, country, down-home, and global recipes. Coupled with loads of bright, colorful photography, you feel the joy in this cookbook, just like you feel the joy when you meet Deborah and eat in her restaurant. Twisted Soul delivers bold yet balanced flavors, opening up a world of exciting tastes and mind-blowing combinations for cooks at any level. It’s a must have on your kitchen shelf.”
— VIRGINIA WILLIS, chef and James Beard Award-winning cookbook author
“We’ve long adored the striking originality and comforting indulgence of Deborah VanTrece’s cooking. The Twisted Soul Cookbook evolves Southern traditions with inspiration from VanTrece’s own well-traveled life, mining resonances to soul she found in iconic comfort foods from Italy to France to Israel to Argentina. In VanTrece’s kitchen, neck bones meet gnocchi, green tomatoes are chopped into chimichurri, and crème brûlée gets the red velvet treatment. There are so many good food ideas in this book, so beautifully executed, we can’t wait for the world to devour it!”
— MATT LEE and TED LEE, authors of The Lee Bros. Charleston Kitchen
“The Twisted Soul Cookbook, without any doubt, is not only about the delicious traditions of both soul & Southern food, it further establishes both as the cuisine of America—all centered around Deborah’s hospitality and inclusion of all seated at the table.”
— TODD RICHARDS, chef and author of Soul: The Evolution of a Chef in 150 Recipes
“In her debut cookbook, Deborah VanTrece doesn’t just take us around the world, she brings us home. Filled with stories and flavors, The Twisted Soul Cookbook reminds us that every meal we prepare is an opportunity to have some fun.”
— JULIA TURSHEN, founder of Equity at the Table and author of Simply Julia
“Chef Deborah VanTrece has taken her brilliantly colorful imaginative culinary passion for global nuances and bold flavors to heart in this beautiful, exciting, eatable bible of soulful recipes. A must have celebration of life, food and love . . . on a plate!”
— ALEXANDER SMALLS, James Beard Award-winning chef, author, and restaurateur
“Deborah VanTrece has spent her entire cooking career as a scholar of all things soul food across the globe. The Twisted Soul Cookbook is the gift of a lifetime of lessons from generations of traditions in nourishment and celebrations. I can not wait to cook my way through this book with the ingenious air of Deborah’s perspective and personality.”
— KELLY FIELDS, chef and author of The Good Book of Southern Baking
“The recipes in The Twisted Soul Cookbook make my mouth water. Chef Deborah VanTrece brings her vibrant personality and eclectic background to the dishes she has created here. I can’t wait to taste them.”
— TANYA HOLLAND, award-winning chef, restaurateur, and author of Brown Sugar Kitchen
“Reading through Deborah VanTrece’s recipes is like taking a walk down memory lane of my childhood in the South. Fresh salmon croquettes are warmly familiar, a mustard greens take on Caesar salad is a brilliant twist, and a sweet tea barbecue sauce is an inspired idea I wish I had thought of first. It’s a collection of recipes with universal appeal—whether you live in the South or not—but stamped with Deborah’s singular point of view.”
— BEN MIMS, cooking columnist for The Los Angeles Times
