Deborah Van Trece

Lesbian Chef Deborah VanTrece On Navigating The Pandemic, Racism In Culinary Industry

Award-winning chef Deborah VanTrece is laying it all on the line. The highly-respected chef and owner of “Twisted Soul Cookhouse and Pours” in West Midtown has had to reinvent the model for her successful soul food restaurant more times than she could have ever imagined in 2020. But during times of uncertainty and stress, clarity is not often far behind–or in VanTrece’s case—the desire to no longer publicly sugarcoat the challenges brought on by the pandemic, and the racism that she and other Black colleagues have endured in professional kitchens long before the pandemic upended the restaurant industry.

Lesbian Chef Deborah VanTrece On Navigating The Pandemic, Racism In Culinary Industry