Somethingtofoodabout
Subtitle: exploring creativity with innovative chefs
By: Questlove ; with Ben Greenman ; photography by Kyoko Hamada
Contributors: Greenman, Ben, author; Myhrvold, Nathan, interviewee; Humm, Daniel, interviewee; Solomonov, Michael, interviewee; Lefebvre, Ludovic, interviewee; Beran, Dave, interviewee; Crenn, Dominique, interviewee; Link, Donald, interviewee; Patterson, Daniel, 1968- interviewee; Griffiths, Jesse, interviewee; Roadhouse, Ryan, interviewee; Hamada, Kyoko, photographer
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780553459425
Subjects: Gastronomy; Cooks; Interviews; Dinners and dining; Songs and music
Other titles: Something to food about
Description: ""The frontman of hip-hop stars The Roots and bandleader for Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show draws on conversations with 10 cutting-edge chefs, including Ludo Lefebvre, Dominique Crenn and Nathan Myrfvold, to offer inspirational insights into their creative culinary processes,"--NoveList.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Anthony Bourdain; title: "There is a history of food, but it's also the most ephemeral of the performing arts, because you can't record it" : Nathan Myhrvold; title: "You have to understand the ground rules so that you can decide when to break them" : Daniel Humm; title: "I think becoming obsessed over control, especially in the restaurant world, is insane" : Michael Solomonov; title: "Don't show 'em what you got, at least not right away" : Ludo Lefebvre; title: "When an idea is a success, you close it down" : Dave Beran; title: "When you eat meat the way you should, it's a very mindful process" : Jesse Griffiths; title: "Over time I started to realize that it was okay to embrace my roots" : Donald Link; title: "For me food is art. I have a brush in my hand and this brush is a knife" : Dominique Crenn; title: "While we're being chefs we might as well rethink institutional cooking: hospitals, prisons, schools" : Daniel Patterson; title: "In some cuisines, what you're looking at, at the highest level, is a competent reproduction" : Ryan Roadhouse; title: Last chapter.