Celebrate the release of California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival with author and Watts native Keith Corbin, chef and co-owner of Los Angeles’s Alta Adams, named one of the country’s best new restaurants by Esquire, Thrillist, and the LA Times. California Soul takes readers through a story of gang hierarchies, drug dealing, prison politics, gentrification, and culinary prowess. Corbin tells what it was like for him to grow up Black in America under some of the worst circumstances: to see unspeakable tragedy and commit acts of violence, to get locked up and re-locked up, to attempt to go straight and find the system unforgiving, to find a culinary passion and go for it, to succeed and fail, and to be forced to fight for his place at the table. Corbin will be joined by acclaimed chef and author Roy Choi.

Presented in partnership with Now Serving, a cookbook and culinary shop in Los Angeles