AWARD WINNING PICTURE BOOK BIOGRAPHY OF THE CHEF WHO KICKSTARTED THE
FOOD TRUCK MOVEMENT.*
Chef Roy Choi calls himself a "street cook."
He wants outsiders, low-riders,
kids, teens, shufflers and skateboarders,
to have food cooked with care, with love,
with sohn maash.*
"Sohn maash" is the flavors in our fingertips. It is the love and
cooking talent that Korean mothers and grandmothers mix into their
handmade foods. For Chef Roy Choi, food means love. It also means
culture, not only of Korea where he was born, but the many cultures that
make up the streets of Los Angeles, where he was raised. So remixing
food from the streets, just like good music--and serving it up from a
truck--is true to L.A. food culture. People smiled and talked as they
waited in line. Won't you join him as he makes good food smiles?
Jacqueline Briggs Martin, author of the Caldecott Medal winner,
Snowflake Bentley as well as Farmer Will Allen and the Growing
Table, and Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious continues her Food
Heroes series with Chef Roy Choi on people who change what and how we
eat. Together with food ethnographer June Jo Lee and internationally
renowned graffiti artist Man One, they bring an exuberant celebration of
street food and street art.
Chef Roy Choi is also available in audiobook, narrated by illustrator
Man One, a Audiofile magazine Earphones Award winner. The Spanish
edition of the book, El Chef Roy Choi y su Remix de la Comida
Callejera, will be published in September 2022 with the audiobook, also
narrated by Man One, coming in fall 2022.
...Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of the Caldecott Medal
winner, Snowflake Bentley. Chef Roy Choi marks the third of her
award-winning "Food Heroes" series, after Farmer Will Allen and the
Growing Table and Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious, on pioneers
who changed what and how we eat. Her newest book is Sandor Katz and the
Tiny Wild, also co-written with June Jo Lee after Chef Roy Choi. She
lives in Mount Vernon, Iowa. jacquelinebriggsmartin.com
June Jo Lee is a food ethnographer, studying how America eats for
companies such as Google and is a national speaker on food trends. She
is also co-founder of publisher READERS to EATERS, promoting food
literacy with stories about our diverse food cultures. Like Roy Choi,
she was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the United States. She
now lives in San Francisco. Her newest book is Sandor Katz and the Tiny
Wild, also co-written with Jacqueline Briggs Martin.
foodethnographer.com.
Man One has been a pioneer in the graffiti art movement in Los
Angeles since the 1980s. His work has been exhibited in galleries and
museums around the world. He is the co-founder of Crewest Studio, a
creative communications company focusing on contemporary global culture.
This is his first children's book. He also narrated the English
audiobook, an Audiofile magazine Earphones Award winner, and will
narrate the Spanish audiobook coming in late 2022. manone.com
