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"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 stes 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 -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 y." - 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
"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 Coelli, 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 -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 y food from her roots shines through on every page." -
Sarah Britton, Holisitic tionist 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 -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 y 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
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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 tion 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 tional 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 y and delicious vegan
diet.