Questlove is best known for his achievements in the music world, but his interest in food runs a close second. He has hosted a series of renowned Food Salons and conversations with some of America’s most prominent chefs. Now he is turning his hand to creating a cookbook. In Mixtape Potluck Cookbook, Questlove imagines the ultimate potluck dinner party, inviting more than fifty chefs, entertainers, and musicians—such as Eric Ripert, Natalie Portman, and Q-Tip—and asking them to bring along their favorite recipes. He also pairs each cook with a song that he feels best captures their unique creative energy. The result is not only an accessible, entertaining cookbook, but also a collection of Questlove’s diverting musical commentaries as well as an illustration of the fascinating creative relationship between music and food. With Questlove’s unique style of hosting dinner parties and his love of music, food, and entertaining, this book will give readers unexpected insights into the relationship between culture and food.
Drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, designer, New York Times best-selling author, and member of The Roots - Questlove, is the unmistakable heartbeat of Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop group. He is the Musical Director for The Tonight
Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where his belovedRoots crew serves as house band. Beyond that, this 5-time GRAMMY Award winning musician's indisputable reputation has landed him musical directing positions with everyone from D'Angelo to Eminem to Jay-Z. Questlove has also released four books including the New York Times bestseller Mo’ Meta Blues, Soul Train: The Music, Dance and Style of a Generation, the James Beard Award-nominated and AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers award winning book somethingtofoodabout: Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs, and the New York Times bestseller, and GRAMMY nominated Creative Quest.
Jessica Koslow started her career in pastry at the celebrated Bacchanalia in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a bestselling cookbook author, a 2018 Observer Food and Drink’s 55 Most Influential People in the World recipient, and a two-time James Beard Award-nominated chef-owner of SQIRL, the internationally celebrated, East Hollywood breakfast-lunch cafe that has been called “forward-thinking,” “downright revolutionary,” and home to “everything I want, on one plate, over and over again.” Koslow's restaurant Sqirl has been lauded by the London’s Times as The restaurant of Los Angeles, appeared on Condé Nast’s Where In the World to Eat, Eater’s 38 Best Restaurants in America, and Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. Jessica is busy with a new restaurant, Onda, opening in Santa Monica with Gabriela Camara of Contra Mar and Cala in August of 2019, a new take out project, Sqirl Away, opening late fall of 2019, and a new cookbook on Jam, slated to be released in early summer 2020.
