Tanya Holland
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Cooking demonstration at Bloomingdales, SF, 2011
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July 14, 1965 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Education | University of Virginia; La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine, Burgundy, France |
| Website | tanyaholland |
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| Cooking style | New Soul |
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Tanya Holland is an African-American professional chef, cookbook author, and owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen. Her first book, New Soul Cooking, was published by Stuart, Tabori & Chang in 2003. A second book, Brown Sugar Kitchen: New Style Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland with a foreword by Michael Chabon, was released in 2014 by Chronicle Books. Holland is a regular guest chef on NBC's Today Show and CBS's The Talk. She hosted the Food Network TV show "Melting Pot Soul Kitchen" from 2000-2003.
Holland was born in Hartford, Connecticut where her father, Hollis Holland, attended Western New England College. The Holland family moved to Rochester, New York when Holland was two years old, when her father took a job with Eastman Kodak.
Holland’s parents (Hollis and Annette Holland) influenced her interest in cooking: her father is from rural Virginia and her mother from Louisiana. When Holland was eight years old, her parents founded a gourmet cooking and eating club that consisted of six couples from different ethnic and professional backgrounds. They gathered to share experiences and meals that ranged from French, Mexican, Jewish, Indian, Pennsylvanian Dutch, Italian and Southern Cuisine.
Holland graduated from Pittsford-Mendon High Schooll in 1983. She attended the University of Virginia, where she graduated in 1987 with a BA in Russian Language and Literature, and began her restaurant career in New York City as an assistant manager at Cornelia Street Café, Café Rakel and Nosmo King restaurants. She went on to work as a catering office manager, a tasting assistant for a wine importer, and a server at Mesa Grill before she committed to a career in the kitchen.
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