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California Soul audiobook
- By: Keith Corbin
- Narrator: Keith Corbin
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
- Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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California Soul Audiobook Summary
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir about gangs, drugs, cooking, and living life on the line—both on the streets and in the kitchen—from one of the most exciting stars in the food world today
“As compelling or more so than Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society . . . When Corbin writes about his life, it burns with the intensity of the best pulp fiction, but it isn’t fiction—it’s the life he lived.”—Los Angeles Times
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Chef Keith Corbin has been cooking his entire life. Born on the home turf of the notorious Grape Street Crips in 1980s Watts, Los Angeles, he got his start cooking crack at age thirteen, becoming so skilled that he was flown across the country to cook for drug operations in other cities. After his criminal enterprises caught up with him, though, Corbin spent years in California’s most notorious maximum security prisons—witnessing the resourcefulness of other inmates who made kimchi out of leftover vegetables and tamales from ground-up Fritos. He developed his own culinary palate and ingenuity, creating “spreads” out of the unbearable commissary ingredients and experimenting during his shifts in the prison kitchen.
After his release, Corbin got a job managing the kitchen at LocoL, an ambitious fast food restaurant spearheaded by celebrity chefs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson, designed to bring inexpensive, quality food and good jobs into underserved neighborhoods. But when Corbin was suddenly thrust into the spotlight, he struggled to live up to or accept the simplified “gangbanger redemption” portrayal of him in the media. As he battles private demons while achieving public success, Corbin traces the origins of his vision for “California soul food” and takes readers inside the worlds of gang hierarchy, drug dealing, prison politics, gentrification, and culinary achievement to tell the story of how he became head chef of Alta Adams, one of America’s best restaurants.
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California Soul Full Details
| Narrator | Keith Corbin |
| Length | 8 hours 47 minutes |
| Author | Keith Corbin |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593633069 |
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The publisher of the California Soul is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: summer reading, summer reads, book club recommendations, survival, addiction, african american cookbooks, african american books, criminal justice, books by black authors, african american, racism, friendship, relationships, family, california soul food, soul food, foodie gifts, autobiographies, autobiography, chef books, gifts for her, gifts for him, culinary gifts, gifts for foodies, cooking gifts, food, chef, cooking, violence, crime, prison, drugs, gangs, California, Watts, memoirs, memoir, Keith Corbin, California Soul, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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The publisher of the California Soul is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593633069.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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