Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix - Rilegato

Roy saw that Kogi food was like good music,
bringing people together and making smiles.

Strangers talked and laughed as they waited in line
Koreans with Latinos, kids with elders,
taggers with geeks.

Roy found his place, back on the streets
feeding hungry people, cooking up joy.
He was home--living. He had found his best good time.

Kogi tacos made Roy famous.
Kogi trucks showed people that fresh food, full of flavor,
chopped, mixed, and seasoned by hand,
didn’t need fancy restaurants.

Roy wanted to feed more people in his city.
He built cheerful food spots in worn out neighborhoods places.

He taught kids to make and sell their own tasty treats.
But that wasn’t enough.
He called on his chef friends to start cooking for everyone,
Let’s feed those we aren’t reaching.”

from Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix

Jacqueline Briggs Martin is the author of many award winning children’s books, including Snowflake Bentley, winner of the Caldecott Medal. Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table, which was named an ALA Notable Children's Book and a "Best Nonfiction Books" by School Library Journal, was the first of her Food Hero series on people who changed what and how we eat. Alice Waters and the Trip to Delicious, the second book in the series, received a starred review from School Library Journal and was named a "CCBC Choices by Cooperative Children's Book Center. She enjoyed home cooking while growing up at her family farm in Maine, but also liked sampling from the Korean taco truck, ramen and congee at Roy Choi’s restaurants while doing research for the book. She lives in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and tries to eat kimchi everyday. Learn more about her at jacquelinebriggsmartin.com.

June Jo Lee is a food ethnographer, spending her days visiting kitchens, dining rooms, and markets to understand how America eats. She’s a national speaker on food trends and consults with organizations from university campus dining to Google Food and has been featured in the New York Times. She is also co-founder of READERS to EATERS, publishing books to promote food literacy. Like Roy Choi, she was born in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the U.S., where she grew up eating her mom’s kimchi. She now lives near Seattle, Washington. This is her first book. Learn more about her at foodethnographer.com.

Man One has been a pioneer in the Graffiti Art movement in Los Angeles since the 1980s. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Getty, and Parco Museum in Tokyo, Japan, and others. His artwork has been shown in galleries around the world including Australia, Germany, Mexico and New Zealand. He has painted live on stage at some of the largest U.S. music concerts and festivals including tours for MTV with The Black Eyed Peas. He is the recipient of the Speaker and Specialist Grant by the U.S. State Department to work with children in Panama to build self-esteem through art. In 2002, he founded Crewest Gallery, the premiere street art gallery in L.A. to give graffiti artists a professional venue to showcase their work. In 2014, he relaunched Crewest as a lifestyle media company focused on creativity, art and design. A proud Chicano artist, he is a first generation American whose parents immigrated from Mexico to Los Angeles in the late 1960's. He ate his family's delicious Mexican recipes at home growing up, but Bob's Big Boy was his favorite spot to eat out. This is his first children's book. Learn about Man One and Crewest at manone.com and crewest.com.