The Urban Cookbook

by King Adz

Street food, street art, and street creative recipes for the graffiti generation. Here is an international culinary first, a cookbook with a recipes to feed the creative appetite, born out of the edgy, rugged culture of the street. Jerk chicken with hot pepper gravy, Ras-el-hanout lamb, Trinchada, Potjiekos, Rajad's perfect 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, fasion designers, digital and street artists, skaters, DJs, club owners, musicians, street-savvy talent scouts, and Internet entrepreneurs. King Adz is a filmmaker and Creative Director of 100proofTRUTH , a PDF magazine. He is the coauthor of Blek le Getting Through the Walls .

Genres: Cookbooks, Food

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 3, 2008

Reviews

[Joana Diniz · Rating 4 out of 5]

The food recipes were nothing special. I enjoyed most the tips given by the artists.

[Tim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Amazed that Thames & Hudson thought this worth publishing.
I can't imagine the supposed target market are going to pay £17 for it.
The recipes are foods that this market buys in takeaways and cheap restaurants and cafes, they not suddenly going to want to cook them instead.
Quickly outdated rubbish that cost me 30p withdrawn from library, and I wouldn't have paid anymore.

[Rebecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

The recipies were interesting but there weren't heaps, and the other content of the book will age pretty quickly I think...