THE URBAN COOKBOOK Creative recipes for the graffiti generation - Street Food, Street Art and Street Style for the Graffiti Generation

THE URBAN COOKBOOK is an indepth investigation into five cities where the street sets the creative agenda: New York, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam and London. King Adz tells the story of his trip to each city, taking the reader on a walk round the neighbourhoods that buzz with street life, explains where the best food can be found, then talks to the city's keenest creative talents - DJ's, skaters, internet entrepreneurs, designers and talent scouts. Finally, King Adz offers up eight simple and delicious recipes which he discovered on the streets of each city.

Here is an international culinary first, a cookbook with a difference: recipes to feed the creative appetite, born out of the edgy, rugged culture of the street. Jerk chicken with hot pepper gravy, Ras-el-hanout lamb, Trinchada, Potjiekos, Rajad's perfect steak: King Adz explores five of the world's greatest cities to seek out and cook forty dishes in all.

From Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam to London and New York, his road-trip rules were to use public transport, eat street food, and stay in cheap, locally run hotels, all of which allowed him to visit places that are seldom covered in traditional travel or food titles.

This being a cookbook unlike any other, once your appetite for food has been sated, you can go on to find all that epitomizes urban creativity through interviews with key photographers, illustrators, fashion designers, digital and street artists, skaters, DJs, club owners, musicians, street-savvy talent scouts, and Internet entrepreneurs. 250+ color illustrations - King Adz is a filmmaker and Creative Director of 100proofTRUTH, a PDF magazine. He is the coauthor of Blek le Rat: Getting Through the Walls.