I like the format of the cookbook and the pictures included. Not really sure, if I will try any of the recipes in the future, but regardless, thought this was a nice cookbook and worth checking out.

Removed from the site before I had the chance to read it. Would be handy if these books stayed up longer than a month or two in order to be able to access them.

There are so many recipes that sound amazing. I can't wait to try some of them. Super excited to try the vinegar BBQ sauce. The photos were great. I just ate lunch and this book made me hungry! Interesting info too.

4 stars

This cookbook is a compilation of recipes by Justin Sutherland, winner of an Iron Chef episode. The recipes are rooted in Southern cooking influenced by his Northern Midwest, African American and Asian heritage. It's a creative and interesting compilation interspersed with anecdotes of his influences growing up in the Northern Midwest.

This cookbook has made me want to look up Justin Sutherland and see him in action. These recipes look and sound delicious. I will definitely be trying some of these recipes. They are southern recipes but such a wide array from classic fried chicken, jambalaya, seafood, and bbq.

Mouthwatering recipes- food lovers need this! It’s not often that I read a recipe book and literally want to try out so many recipes! Usually, I find 3 or 4 that I’ll use. Not with this cook book! Being from the UK and having experienced American food, I wanted to re-create these dishes at home. I especially like to host so will definitely utilise some recipes, especially the BBQ rubs and dressings. Highly recommend!

I love a good cookbook and this was a good cookbook. I found it very inspiring and it made me want to get in the kitchen. I will definitely be recommending that my library purchase this book for our collection.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press for an arc in exchange for an honest review.

Top Chef alum and Fast Foodies host, Justin Sutherland, has captivated TV audience with his unique spin on southern soul food and now with his debut cookbook he aims to bring that same flair home. He talks openly about his African-American and Asian heritage and how the two cultures influenced his love of food. He brings that same energy into his recipes. This cookbook covers a wide spectrum of options from soups and salad, traditional comfort food mains, appetizers, pickled delights, mouthwatering sides and unique cocktails. He takes well known southern dishes and adds his own spin to them (and plenty of bourbon!), think shrimp cocktail with a green cocktail sauce, cornbread muffins with honey cayenne butter, bourbon gastrique or pickled pears. He has plenty of classics as well. There is even his famed Handsome Hog Burger named after his Minnesota restaurant. The cocktail "I Drink and I Know Things" has already made it into our drink rotation. Justin will continue to redefine the culinary landscape and this is a great addition to any cookbook collection.

Just because you’re not from the south, doesn’t mean you can’t become an expert in southern cooking. Justin Sutherland, a well-known and celebrated chef and restaurateur, was born and raised in Minneapolis, and teaches us that southern cooking can be done well no matter where you live in his beautiful cookbook, Northern Soul: Southern-Inspired Home Cooking from a Northern Kitchen. Southerland learned his cooking skills from his mother and grandmother, and he has filled this excellent cookbook with mouthwatering and appealing recipes that everyone who loves southern food will want to prepare.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients first, followed by step-by-step instructions that are easy to follow. There are notes and vignettes at the top of the recipes, which make them more personal. There are also beautiful, professional photographs of most of the recipes which makes it difficult to decide which to make next. The cookbook includes a variety of recipes that will appeal to almost everyone. Many are simple, so both beginning and advanced cooks can produce picture perfect dishes easily.

This cookbook includes recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, side dishes, and desserts. You’ll definitely want to try the Pimento Cheese Shrimp and Grits (delicious), Hush Puppies and Brussels Sprouts with Bacon. The longer you peruse the book, the longer your queue of “must make soon” dishes will become. This one is a good one and belongs on every cookbook shelf.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Thank you to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

This was a beautiful cookbook. The recipees are different and interesting. I would love to try some of these recipes. Not well-versed in southern cooking but I would love to learn.

This book by Chef Justin is wonderful and a beautiful addition to the canon of African-American cookbooks. It's rare for us to tell our stories on this level and his recipes look delightful. I've since added this book to my library and look forward to cooking from it for years to come.

I wanted to like this cookbook. I thought it would have some new and creative recipes to try but it was more of the same. Not necessairly his fault so I gave it three stars. I will say, if you are a Northerner, this cookbook will be a good addition to your kitchen. As someone who lives in the South, this cookbook didn’t wow me even though I wanted to to. I would recommend to my Northerner friends.

Lets talk about how there is an entire chapter on PICKLED THINGS. The pickled pears are so good and I cannot wait to serve them on all my charcuterie boards this winter. I want to tell you that if you just look at the recipes by name, there isn't a ton of excitement there- you've seen other books with similar recipes, but it is the care and the unexpected things that make these recipes amazin. We made the shrimp cocktail with green cocktail sauce for a party and people were floored. Buy this cookbook. I'd buy it just for those two recipes but then he goes off with No mayo coleslaw(some of us just don't like mayo ok?), Bourbon Bacon Jam, and goodness if you don't have a biscuits and gravy recipe the one in here is SO GOOD! Although I received this ebook for free in return for my review, I will be buying a physical copy to keep on my shelf.

For someone not from the South the guy can cook. I love this chef. I watch him anytime he’s on any show. His cookbook does not disappoint whatsoever.

This is far more my jam. One man’s idiosyncratic take on a well-known cuisine – not that I really know southern soul food that well. In particular, what I didn’t know is that they are serious about pickles. I will be trying the pickling recipes from this book if nothing else once I’m in my own kitchen. Pickled watermelon rinds? Let’s find out. The main dishes, the main dishes didn’t call to me as much, but I know I will return and look at how he does po’boys at some point in the future. Recommended reading. Thanks Netgalley.

A beautifully written cookbook with heartening stories and amazing recipes!

I've enjoyed watching Justin Sutherland on various tv shows and it was really nice to get some insight into his way of cooking and the stories behind his recipes. Beautiful photos and easy to follow instructions.

Thank you to Net Galley, the author and publisher for a temporary, digital ARC in return for my reivew.

There are some delicious looking recipes in this book. Don’t know if I’ll be able to buy all the ingredients here in the UK.
Interesting background to the book and some beautiful photography. Can’t wait to try out some of the recipes on my family.

Join nationally recognized restaurateur and chef Justin Sutherland on his tour of American Southern cuisine shaped by his Midwestern and Southern upbringing and African-American and Asian heritage.

Justin owns multiple restaurants in the Twin Cities, though his reputation is national. You may know him from television, where he won an Iron Chef episode, competed on Season 16 of Top Chef, and is one of the chefs featured on Fast Foodies airing on TruTV/TBS. In Northern Soul, Justin shares the inspiration and foundation behind his approach to his signature Southern cooking.

Northern Soul features 80+ recipes covering his signature recipes for lunch, brunch, dinner, snacks, late-night meals, and cocktail recipes perfected at Handsome Hog, his acclaimed pig-centric Southern restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota. Justin shares how you can make easy, traditional Southern recipes with a Northern flair, in your own kitchen.

Ranging from cocktails to dessert, this cook has soul food with a Minnesota twist. Each recipe has a well thought out personal note before the clear and easy to follow instructions and the photographs are lovely.
Like any good cookbook, it made me hungry.
Very well done. Highly recommended.

Southern Soul foods from a Northern Soul chap. Now I know what biscuits and gravy really are - not what I would call gravy but essentially a nice meaty mince of the sort I'd put in a pie plus sort of scones. Great. He starts with basic rubs, spices and sauces, moves to pickles (I'm knee-deep making these at the moment) , some fairly substantial sides then onto salads, soups and dressings, mains through to puddings. Many of the recipes are straightforward using whole fresh ingredients needing nothing more in the way of equipment than that found in a typical good kitchen; others need a bit more. For example, the Andouille sausage needs a hot smoker (recipe defo on the to-do list) although there is quite a bit of ready-made spice mixes - Zatarain's crab boil seasoning. I have no idea what this is but presume Mrs Google would help should I need it. I love the sound of "kinda healthy bourbon pecan pie" . Measurements are US cups but we're used to that and ost of us have Metric equivalents on a sheets somewhere if not ingrained in the brain these days. A good range traditional if tweaked Southern recipes - could impress my daughter's mother-in-law from Louisiana although she rarely cooks! Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy.

I loved this book. there are great southern recipes that seem so easy to make! I definitely want to try the coleslaw and the baked beans too!