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: Named a Best Book of the Year by Salon and a top pick for the Los Angeles Times Book Club.

The memoir is widely praised for its "unflinchingly honest" portrayal of survival and for challenging the simplified "gangbanger redemption" narrative often found in media. California_Soul_An_American_Epic_of_Cooking_and_Survivalzip

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is a memoir by James Beard Award-nominated chef Keith Corbin and journalist Kevin Alexander . Published in August 2022, it details Corbin's journey from a childhood in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles to becoming the executive chef and co-owner of the acclaimed restaurant Alta Adams . Narrative Highlights Go to product viewer dialog for this item

: While serving time in California's maximum-security prisons, he discovered his culinary passion by creating innovative "spreads" from limited commissary ingredients, such as tamales made from ground-up Fritos.

: After his release, he managed the kitchen at LocoL , a social enterprise restaurant founded by Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson, before eventually opening Alta Adams.