Son of a Southern Chef
Cook with Soul: A Cookbook
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
A wildly inventive soul food bible from a two-time Chopped winner and the host of Snapchat's first-ever cooking show.
Thousands of fans know Lazarus Lynch for his bold artistic sensibility, exciting take on soul food, and knockout fashion sense. Laz has always had Southern and Caribbean food on his mind and running through his veins; his mother is Guyanese, while his father was from Alabama and ran a popular soul food restaurant in Queens known for its Southern comfort favorites. He created "Son of a Southern Chef" on Instagram as a love letter to the family recipes and love of cooking he inherited.
In his debut cookbook, Laz offers up more than 100 recipe hits with new takes on classic dishes like Brown Butter Candy Yam Mash with Goat Cheese Brülée, Shrimp and Crazy Creamy Cheddar Grits, and Dulce de Leche Banana Pudding. Packed with splashy color photography that pops off the page, this cookbook blends fashion, food, and storytelling to get readers into the kitchen. It's a Southern cookbook like you've never seen before.
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With a personality and presence as bold as his food, Lynch, a two-time winner of Food Network's Chopped, here offers a bevy of dishes with Southern roots (his father is from Alabama and ran a soul food restaurant in Queens): corn and green onion fritters with red pepper sauce; skillet turkey chili with cheesy jalape o cornbread crust; blackened salmon burger with cucumber sauce; and maple bourbon buttermilk fried chicken are just some of the dishes readers will want to bookmark. Lynch has a gift for combining flavors, as seen in his curry lamb meatballs in coconut sauce; lime, rum and coconut bars; and Coca-Cola- BBQ chicken, a riff on classic Beer Can Chicken (Lynch uses the soda as a marinade, to steam the chicken, and to craft a quick barbecue sauce to serve alongside). The one downside is the number of similar images devoted to Lynch rather than to his creations. Nevertheless, this is an exciting, approachable collection of recipes perfect for entertaining.
