If you weren’t hungry before looking at the pictures in this cookbook, I can guarantee you will be when you’re through. Between the easy, authentic Southern recipes to the mouth watering pictures, Kowbird will surely be your new favorite for week nights, date nights, special occasions and everything in between. Go ahead and buy this book - you won’t regret it.

Colorful pictures of each recipe make this cook book pleasing to the eye. The Southern recipes and the easy-to-follow instructions make it a great cook book. Combine the two and you get a book I want on my coffee table.

A book of chicken recipes with a southern US flavour although there are a few desserts sans chicken. Recipes are easy, straightforward and most ingredients will be easy to get anywhere although green tomatoes, in the UK, are seasonable at best or if you grow your own. I've never seen them in shops in my bit of Scotland. Nothing hard about any recipe, many of which will be in other cook books. Measurements include metric and well illustrated with colour photographs. Some useful recipes for rubs and the like at the back. A good cookbook if you especially like chicken and want new ideas in one place. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy.

Overall a very good cookbook with simple, easy to follow recipes that produce good and consistent results. If you want to cook something other than chicken, then this is probably not the pick for you, but if you like chicken and are a fan of Southern cooking, this has many good staple recipes and will be a perfect addition to your reference materials.

The cookbook does feature sides and desserts, so it's not just main course chicken dishes which is often the case when you pick up a chicken cookbook. And there are also rubs and sauces which is a real bonus. I like to try different spice mixes because I'm always hunting for the perfect one, and having a cookbook that offers some of the really solid kind is a bonus.

I have the fried green tomatoes recipe ready to go when we finally get some in store, because it's not the same with a ripe red tomato. And I tested a few recipes and found them tasty and really easy to prepare. I personally don't like bone in chicken, so I substituted boneless and skinless in the recipes I tested, and I found that so long as you stick with the cooking temperature, they turned out just as well as I would assume the real deal does. But if you can and do like to cook with bone in, then no need to substitute. The cornbread pot pie was yummy! I am a fan of pot pies and have made a few variations on this cornbread one, and this recipe was as good as (if not better than) my normal go to.

All in all, well worth picking up and definitely has some good options. I don't consider the recipes all that hard either. Probably going to get my daughter to test out a few, and she's a novice cook.

As a German, this book is very interesting.
The recipes are very different from what we know, but all sound delicious.
I would definitly recommend it to anyone, who wants to get more familiar with recipes from the american south.

Both thoughtful and insightful, Kowbird is a love letter to the humble chicken. Horn shares his love and expertise in an engaging and approachable way. The recipes are elevated but not pretentious, making this cookbook a must have for foodies and home cooks alike.

OK - I'm hungry now!!
The photography in this book is stunning, and makes every single recipe look mouthwateringly gorgeous!!!
I cannot wait to try these recipes myself!! (Some recipes are a bit naff - bit obvious, but theres some more unique and interesting ones too)

I received an ARC of this cookbook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a wonderful cookbook. The pictures are great. The recipes are varied and all look delicious and none of the ingredients would be hard to find.

I grew up south of the South and went to college in a proper Southern college town where I discovered honest fried chicken and fixings (not the stuff you find at a fast food chain) so it was a bit of a revelation to find so many authentic Southern chicken recipes, as well as sides, and sauces come from a restaurant in the California Bay Area. I picked this book expecting the fried chicken but the recipes go so far beyond, including staples like chicken and dumplings, variations like creole chicken jambalaya, and classic sides like sweet potato casserole. All of the recipes list prep and cook times and have succinct easy to follow instructions . The couple of recipes that I tried so far have come out well and take me back to my college years. I am looking forward to trying more recipes from this excellent book.
I received advanced digital access to this book thru NetGalley (for which I want to thank NetGalley and the publisher, Quarto Publishing Group – Harvard Common Press) for an honest review. The opinion expressed here is my own.

A really thorough tour through creole chicken recipes. Everything looked great; the ingredients were accessible and the instructions were clear. Apart from chicken mains, it also lists a variety of sides. The only negative thing I have to say about it is that only a handful of recipes are unique to this book. If you have other creole cookbooks, you will probably already have most of the recipes. That being said, I highly recommend if you have a gap in your collection.

I loved this. So many good, traditional family backed recipes. It’s worth it for the sauces, seasonings and gravies alone. I can’t wait to make so many things!