First We Surf, Then We Eat - Recipes From a Lifetime of Surf Travel

Extensive national publicity campaign

Author is very connected in the surf world and is working on events in Southern and Northern California, New York, Hawaii, and more

Outside publicist with expertise in cookbooks and lifestyle has been retained to get television, radio, and print coverage

Broad coverage in the surf media and in regional California and Hawaii media expected

Book is as much an aspirational lifestyle book as a cookbook and surf-themed travel book, so excellent gift potential

Extensive color photography of food, destinations, and surf

This is first real surf-themed cookbook produced in America

Potential to sell well internationally in English-speaking areas, including Australia, the Caribbean, and the South Pacific (Tahiti, Guam, etc.)

Author is expanding his Instagram portfolio with the help of well-known professional surfers and surf photographers

Recipes in the book from such surf stars as Bethany Hamilton and Rell Sunn, and personal stories involving such legendary surfers as Miki Dora, Dale Velzy, and Gerry Lopez

List of contents

The Pleasures of Knowing Jim: Steve Pezman
Chef’s Foreword: Raphael Lunetta
Surfing & Cooking: Supreme Pleasures Impervious to Explanation
Guam, Tahiti & the Pacific
The Basque Country
California
Central America
Morocco
Hawaii
Mexico
The Caribbean
Indonesia
Peru
Acknowledgments
Index

About the author

Jim Kempton is a lifelong surfer, cook, and writer. He has been the editor and publisher of Surfer magazine; the director of Quiksilver’s Crossing Project, a boat that searched the world for the best surf breaks; the director of media for Billabong; and the owner of the former Margarita’s Village, an award-winning regional Mexican restaurant in San Clemente, California. The San Clemente resident is currently the president of the California Surf Museum.

Foreword author Steve Pezman is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Surfer's Journal, and chef's foreword author Raphael Lunetta is the chef/owner of the two Lunetta restaurants in Santa Monica, California, the founding co-chef of JiRaffe, and a lifelong surfer.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Kempton, Kempton Jim
• Assisted by: Divine Jeff (Photographs), Bill Schildge (Photographs), Schildge Bill (Photographs), Tom Servais (Photographs), Servais Tom (Photographs), Raphael Lunetta (Foreword), Lunetta Raphael (Foreword), Pezman Steve (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2021
• EAN: 9781684428373
• ISBN: 978-1-68442-837-3
• Illustrations: extensive color photographs of food, travel, and surf throughout
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Peru, Mexico, Latin America, France, Australia, Travel & holiday guides, TRAVEL / Mexico, Morocco, TRAVEL / South America / Peru, Caribbean islands, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, National and regional cuisine, Mediterranean countries, Travel and holiday guides, Travel guides: activity holidays, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Oceania, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, Central America, Mexico and Central America, COOKING / Regional & Cultural / International