Questlove, leader of hip-hop superstars The Roots and bandleader for Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show, has established himself as a cultural commentator and essayist--a wide-ranging intellect whose interests span from music to politics to race to design and now, food. Somethingtofoodabout is a book about art, craft, creativity, and deliciousness- essays and conversations with ten inspiring chefs on what makes their creative clocks tick.
In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, andNew York Timesbestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food.
In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever food takes them.
Food is fuel. Food is culture. Food is history. And food is food for thought.
Featuring conversations with-Nathan Myhrvold, Modernist Cuisine Lab, Seattle; Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park, and NoMad, NYC; Michael Solomonov, Zahav, Philadelphia;Ludo Lefebvre, Trois Mec, L.A.;Dave Beran, Next, Chicago; Donald Link, Cochon, New Orleans; Dominque Crenn, Atelier Crenn, San Francisco; Daniel Patterson, Coi and Loco'l, San Francisco;Jesse Griffiths, Dai Due, Austin; andRyan Roadhouse, Nodoguro, Portland
Author Biography:
QUESTLOVE, co-founder of hip-hop superstars The Roots and bandleader for Jimmy Fallon'sThe Tonight Show,is one of our great cultural commentators--a wide-ranging mind whose interests span from music to politics to race to design and now, food. Somethingtofoodaboutis a book about art, craft, creativity, and deliciousness- essays and conversations with ten inspiring chefs on what makes their creative clocks tick.
BEN GREENMAN is a staff writer atThe New Yorkerand aNew York Timesbestselling author who has written both fiction (The Slippage, Superbad) and nonfiction. He was Questlove's collaborator on the acclaimed hip-hop memoirMo Meta Blues,and most recently coauthored George Clinton's memoir,Brothas Be, Yo Like George Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You. He lives in Brooklyn and rarely leaves.
KYOKO HAMADAwas born in Tokyo and grew up in Chiba, Japan. Hamada came to New York City to study, graduating from the Pratt Institute studying photography and painting. Her subject matter has often been ordinary people and objects stylized and staged into subtle quiet moments. She has been working as a commercial photographer for the last ten years and her work appears several magazines, includingThe New Yorker, Atlanticmagazine,andWall Street Journal Magazine.
