The Urban Cookbook, by King Adz

Different approaches to food preparation, food presentation, food writing, or recipes, are some of the criteria I look for when featuring new publications. And this one, The Urban Cookbook, by King Adz, sounds intriguing enough:

"Here is an international culinary first, a cookbook with a difference: recipes to feed the creative appetite, born out of the edgy, rugged culture of the street. Jerk chicken with hot pepper gravy, Ras-elhanout lamb, Trinchada, Potjiekos, Rajad’s perfect steak: King Adz explores five of the world’s greatest cities to seek out and cook forty dishes in all.

From Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York, his road-trip rules were to use public transport, eat street food, and stay in cheap, locally run hotels, all of which allowed him to visit places that are seldom covered in traditional travel or food titles.

This being a cookbook unlike any other, once your appetite for food has been sated, you can go on to find all that epitomizes urban creativity through interviews with key photographers, illustrators, fashion designers, digital and street artists, skaters, DJs, club owners, musicians, street-savvy talent scouts, and Internet entrepreneurs", says Jessica's Biscuit.

The Urban Cookbook
by King Adz
Hardcover: 256 Pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date: Oct 29, 2008
Photos: Color Photographs
ISBN-10:0500514305
ISBN-13:9780500514306


Available online from Jessica's Biscuit and Barnes and Noble.