Sylvia's Soul Food: Recipes from Harlem's World-Famous Restaurant

Sylvia’s Soul Food: Recipes from Harlem’s World-Famous Restaurant by Sylvia Woods with Christopher Styler is a foundational soul food cookbook from the legendary “Queen of Soul Food” and founder of Harlem’s iconic Sylvia’s Restaurant. Featuring more than 100 down-home Southern recipes—from barbecued ribs and fried catfish to collard greens, candied sweet potatoes, peach cobbler, and caramel cake—the book preserves the flavors that made Sylvia’s a cultural landmark. Warm, generous, and deeply rooted in Black Southern hospitality, Sylvia’s Soul Food is both a recipe collection and a tribute to the Harlem institution that helped define soul food for generations.