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In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food.

In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever food takes them.

Food is fuel. Food is culture. Food is history. And food is food for thought.

Featuring conversations with: Nathan Myhrvold, Modernist Cuisine Lab, Seattle; Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park, and NoMad, NYC; Michael Solomonov, Zahav, Philadelphia; Ludo Lefebvre, Trois Mec, L.A.; Dave Beran, Next, Chicago; Donald Link, Cochon, New Orleans; Dominque Crenn, Atelier Crenn, San Francisco; Daniel Patterson, Coi and Loco'l, San Francisco; Jesse Griffiths, Dai Due, Austin; and Ryan Roadhouse, Nodoguro, Portland

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“It’s a fresh ride.”--New York Times

“With somethingtofoodabout, Quest (aka Philadelphia's Ahmir Thompson) dives head first into the topics that get chefs talking: What is creativity? How are art and food related? What does the future hold for food and cooking? Questlove sits down with some of the most exceptional chefs in America, including Daniel Humm (Eleven Madison Park), Dominique Crenn (Atelier Crenn), Michael Solomonov (Zahav), and Daniel Patterson (Coi). Questlove himself plays an equal part in getting the answers, providing examples and references to his own life as a musician and creator as he talks with food luminaries about the thorny questions surrounding creativity.”--Eater

“Somethingtofoodabout is really a passion project. For Questlove, it’s not about the food business, but rather the ideas, the concepts, and the imaginations behind the chefs who feed him. There are no recipes and no how-tos. For Questlove, the only how-to you need to know is how to appreciate and understand the taste, the process, and the journey of the idea.”--Vogue

“An enjoyable, frequently surprising exploration of creativity.”--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

QUESTLOVE, co-founder of hip-hop superstars The Roots and bandleader for Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show, is one of our great cultural commentators--a wide-ranging mind whose interests span from music to politics to race to design and now, food. Somethingtofoodabout is a book about art, craft, creativity, and deliciousness: essays and conversations with ten inspiring chefs on what makes their creative clocks tick.

BEN GREENMAN is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a New York Times bestselling author who has written both fiction (The Slippage, Superbad) and nonfiction. He was Questlove's collaborator on the acclaimed hip-hop memoir Mo Meta Blues, and most recently coauthored George Clinton's memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard on You. He lives in Brooklyn and rarely leaves.

KYOKO HAMADA was born in Tokyo and grew up in Chiba, Japan. Hamada came to New York City to study, graduating from the Pratt Institute studying photography and painting. Her subject matter has often been ordinary people and objects stylized and staged into subtle quiet moments. She has been working as a commercial photographer for the last ten years and her work appears several magazines, including The New Yorker, Atlantic magazine, and Wall Street Journal Magazine.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarkson Potter; Illustrated edition (April 12, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0553459422
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0553459425
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.24 x 0.86 x 10.7 inches

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Love, Love, Love -- For Students of Creativity Only...

Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2016

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This book reminds me of the slogan in The Washington Post ads -- If you don't get it, you don't get it. If you're looking for a cookbook -- move on, minion. This isn't for you. It may have recipes but they're for creativity and passion rather than food. As a student of creativity and someone who repeat-reads biographies and repeat-watches documentaries for what some may consider an unhealthy number of times (to dissect the creative processes), I LOVED this book. To me, it's like a documentary on passion and creativity in book form. As Quest interviewed these amazing, innovative chefs and compared and contrasted their journeys to his experiences in the music industry, I found myself adding a layer with my own experiences as a writer in the publishing industry. The similarities were surprising...but, then again, maybe not. The book reinforces the idea that there are common threads in the journeys of all creative types. The passion, the drive, the obsession, the workaholism, the apprenticeship, the innovation, the art, the love -- they all form our personal roots which grow and manifest themselves in different ways -- some of us become musicians, some become writers, and then others become chefs. While there are commonalities in all of the interviews, each adeptly explores different aspects of creativity that will resonate with artists, no matter what the medium is. I learned something different in each one, mostly because the questions were brilliant and gave diverse contexts that led to insightful answers. Even the footnotes are must-reads--some of them were like stream of thought, some contained interesting facts, others were bizarre--all were worth reading and helped round out the interviews and stories. And I usually NEVER read footnotes, but once I read one I read them all.

My favorite interviews -- Lefebvre, Crenn, and Link. Most disturbing image -- massaging the octopus (it's just wrong). Favorite Footnote -- The Plague of Pigs--visually the mere thought almost brought me to tears in the most hilarious sense. Favorite Tips -- the best cheesesteak joints in Philly (ROADTRIP!).

Reading Something to Food About, and its ten divine courses of nourishment for the soul, left me bubbling with creative energy. Think I'll go write something -- and also check out his previous work.

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Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016

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What is so solid about Something To Food About is that it's not a cookbook. The book is an overview of the creative process as seen through the eyes of chefs and the eyes of Quest whose paradigm towards chefs, food, and creativity takes you on a roller coaster outlook that turns and twists in every page. It wasn't what I expected...it was much more.

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2017

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Great read thus far!!

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Gene D.

Cover design is way clever

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2018

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Cool book to read.Amazing pictures.Enticing food preparation descriptions.Makes me hungry.Stays on my coffee table.Friends and family enjoy flipping through pages.And I saw him play at Newport Jazz festival in 2017.Girlfriend bonked my head-should have bought book for him to sign.Oh well...love the book,food,and The Roots....and girlfriend,too.

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Fun Gus

A MUST for the serious foodie / creative person - great insights

Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017

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Originally got it from the library and now bought my own copy. It has to be some of the most interesting and insightful conversations ever into the very subjective world of creativity. I have to be surprised that Nathan Myrvhold was included but the shifts in perspectives and backgrounds is very illuminating.

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2016

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My life have two parts cooking and Hip Hop... This book is created by one of my favorite Hip Hop personality's... And all this about food, art in food, art in easy small things, concept of it... I love it... Plus form of interviews... Make all this easy to read... And understand... I love this one...

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It's a fun peek into Questlove's world

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2017

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Bought as a gift for a friend and she loves it! I had to read it before I gave it to her and agree! It's a fun peek into Questlove's world... I so want to be a guest at one of his dinner parties!

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Tracey Zeng

Mixed feelings about this book

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019

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I picked up this book because I was intrigued by the idea of the intersection between two forms of art, namely music and cooking. While there was certainly discussion of the overlap between the two, I'm not sure I really got what I was looking for. The book really varied from chapter to chapter depending on how interesting or likeable the chef being interviewed was. In parts, it felt like a magazine article. I think ultimately I might have preferred a book entirely from Questlove's perspective, digesting the information he acquired from the interviews and going on delightful tangents.

The most disappointing aspect of the book was the lack of diversity. The majority of the chefs featured were middle aged white men. I don't buy Questlove's claim that including diverse chefs would be a form of tokenism because I don't believe that the best or most interesting chefs in America are predominantly male. Dominique Crenn (the only female chef interviewed for the book--there were no POC interviewed) said it best in one of her responses:

"The history of the industry has been male-dominated for a long time. I think that the media fosters that. It’s not just about chefs, not on an individual basis. It’s the whole food industry, and all related industries. Men tend to get more attention. It’s a cycle. What we’re doing, and what we need to keep doing, as chefs and women, is to push for change. Strangely, I don’t think it’s as much of a problem inside the industry. I am close to other chefs, male and female both. When we’re in the kitchen, we’re just cooking. We look at each other as people that are skilled rather than people who represent their gender."

Finally, as others have said in their reviews: the photography is fantastic.

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Omar El Gammal

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2017

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Phenomenal - great coffee table book or a proper sink in read. Loads of stunning creative photography and insightful points on the creative process for foodies and creatives alike. Also makes a great gift.

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An excellent read and gift for anyone who likes food for more than food itself.

Reviewed in Canada on November 9, 2016

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I am admittedly a foodie. This book is not so much about food as the culture and experience that involve food. I really really had a hard time putting this book down. I read it over a weekend on my balcony overlooking the river and just made me feel good.

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Schönes Buch zum Verschenken an Musikliebhaber

Reviewed in Germany on December 12, 2016

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Habe das Buch einem Freund geschenkt, der Questlove vergöttert und gleichzeitig gutes Essen zu schätzen weiß. Der Beschenkte hat sich sehr gefreut. Das Buch wirkt hochwertig gestalltet. Der inhalt ist eine interessante Perspektive eine Musikers auf die Kunst des Kochens.

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Greg E

Something to good about after we finish talking about music.

Reviewed in Canada on May 10, 2017

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It was a book about food that always circled back to long winded questions about music, food was more of a side note.

Bears Hilton

Damaged product

Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2019

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Love the book, unfortunately it arrived damaged, and appears used. Disappointing at best.

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