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 is part of her award-winning "Food Heroes" series, which she co-wrote with June Jo Lee. They also co-authored Sandor Katz and the Tiny Wild. Jacqueline's other "Food Heroes" books include Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious, and most recently Farmer Eva's Green Garden Life, picture book biographies on people who work to grow better communities through food. 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 State