Southern Inspired is a beautiful book full of well written recipes for delicious food with inspiration drawn from the American south curated by Chef Jernard A. Wells. Released 1st Nov by BenBella Books, it's 256 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats.
As described, this is a well written ode to southern American food traditions with a strong influence from African American soul food. The recipes are well written, but fair warning, they're full of fats, loaded with high sugar content sauces, and many are breaded and deep fried. This is a once-in-a-while decadent party potluck recipe book and not an every day dinner collection.
Recipe ingredients are provided in bullet lists in a sidebar. Measurements are given in imperial (American) units only, followed by step by step directions. There is no nutritional information included. The standouts for me in this collection were the appealing layout with gorgeous photography - well styled and appealing food, presented very well, as well as Chef Wells' friendly personality and welcoming style. He seems to be a big friendly guy with a burning passion for food, and that shines through in his writing.
Four stars. Very nice collection.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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