Northern Soul by Justin Sutherland

If you're looking to spice up your food and drink over the holidays, you'd better have a suitable spicy cookbook, and this could just be it.

The award-winning chef (Food Network's Iron Chef winner and Top Chef Kentucky Season Finalist competitor) Justin Sutherland's Northern Soul features 90 plus recipes explaining his signature techniques for lunch, brunch, dinner, snacks, late-night meals, and even cocktails, all perfected at Handsome Hog, his acclaimed pig-centric Southern restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota.

It's Southern soul food - Creole Jambalaya, Ham and Greens Soup, Gumbo My Way, Catfish and Grits, Kinda Healthy Bourbon Pecan Pie, cocktails like Coffee-Infused Boulevardier - served up with his Northern flair. Justin even gives away recipes for some of his secret rubs, spice and pickle mixes.

He'll make you nostalgic for your Southern heritage - even if you never lived there.

Harvard Common Press £22.00

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