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.

BIO

Lazarus Lynch is an African-American entrepreneur, author, musician, multimedia host, and the face of Son of a Southern Chef. He is a two-time Chopped champion and the host of Snapchat's first-ever cooking show, Chopped U, and the Food Network digital series Comfort Nation. His website was a 2017 Saveur Blog Awards nominee. Lazarus has appeared on The Cooking Channel, BuzzFeed, Tastemade, NPR, and The Today Show. He lives in New York City, where he was raised.

REVIEWS

"An uninhibited, personal celebration of his family's cooking and African-American foodways." --Grub Street

"Lazarus Lynch puts the 'I' in individual and the 'S' in style. His new cookbook will remind you to enter the kitchen with joy, inspire you to cook boldly, and go where you've never gone before." --Carla Hall, Chef and Author of Carla Hall's Soul Food

"Imagine if Prince wrote a cookbook while channeling the spirit of 7,000 West African, Caribbean, and Southern grandmothers with photography by David LaChapelle and art direction by Tyler the Creator. Enter Lazarus Lynch. Son of a Southern Chef is a magical cookbook filled with all the contradictions you'd expect from a culinary (and musical) virtuoso--it's avant-garde yet grounded in tradition, hood yet haute, mischievous yet earnest in its intent to push the boundaries of how we imagine Black food. This cookbook is dripping with all the swag and creativity that fans have loved since Lynch came on the scene in 2014, and he truly is the Rockstar Chef we've all been waiting for." --Bryant Terry, James Beard award-winning author of Afro-Vegan

Avery Publishing Group  /  June 11, 2019

 0.7" H x 9.9" L x 7.9" W (2.2 lbs) 288 pages