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Tabitha Brown Releases Long-Awaited Cookbook and is Going on Limited City Tour

Vegan sensation Tabitha Brown is releasing her long-awaited cookbook, which will feature an audio version read by her in her soothing voice (a fan favorite) and even a limited city tour.

Source: Tabitha Brown/YouTube

Cooking from the Spirit is filled with colorful images and ‘Tabism’. Brown told Blavity that it needed to be her in book form. In a chat with Blavity, Brown said that one of the things that were important for her to create in the cookbook was a feeling like she was in the kitchen with the reader and they were cooking together.

“I want people to feel like, ‘yeah, this is Tab, right,’” Brown told Blavity. “Same way with my audiobook, I recorded it in my voice. And people are like, people don’t need audio for Cookbooks, but I want people to download it and hear me in the kitchen and feel like that I’m in there with them.”

If you’ve ever seen Brown’s videos, you know that she is vibrant but has a relaxing and safe voice that draws people in.

“I remember when I was doing my photo shoot for the food with the photographer. And so, you know, replating the food and stuff. And I said, ‘listen, the food gotta look like me saying, get into it,’” she said. “It’s gotta have that same effect like, when I do my videos — like, y’all, get into it. So, I wanted to be me in book form. That’s the best way I could put it. And I wanted people to feel like they got a little piece of Tab in their kitchen with them and in their food. So almost like we get to have food together. Like, we get to share a meal together.”

Brown’s cookbook is a little different because she doesn’t use measurements in her cooking. “I just do it as I go,” she said.

Brown’s goal is for people to learn to trust themselves. She told Blavity that “a lot of times people be like, ‘I cannot cook without measurements’ and I’d be like, ‘yes, you can, you can trust yourself enough to know what you like.’ So, I just want people to have that feeling with it.”

The book tour will be an in-person experience where Brown will interact with her fans. She is looking forward to answering food questions and finally getting to answer some of the questions she gets on social media but just can’t get to.

“So many people always send me questions about being vegan or asking about substitutes. Or, you know, ‘I can’t eat peanuts, what can I use?’ Or ‘I can’t eat mushrooms.’ I get so many of those messages I can’t respond to, so I’m excited about being able to do a Q&A and answer those questions in person.”

“And of course, I’m looking forward to being able to hug on people and love on people and all those things and taking them pictures. It feels like a family reunion to me.”

Cooking from the Spirit is available for purchase, and tickets for the eight-city book tour can be found here.

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