Bøker av Questlove

In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever food takes them. Food is fuel. Food is culture. Food is history. And food is food for thought. Featuring conversations with: Nathan Myhrvold, Modernist Cuisine Lab, Seattle;  Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park, and NoMad, NYC;  Michael Solomonov, Zahav, Philadelphia; Ludo Lefebvre, Trois Mec, L.A.; Dave Beran, Next, Chicago; Donald Link, Cochon, New Orleans;  Dominque Crenn, Atelier Crenn, San Francisco;  Daniel Patterson, Coi and Loco''l, San Francisco; Jesse Griffiths, Dai Due, Austin; and Ryan Roadhouse, Nodoguro, Portland

Offers a guide to creativity composed of creative philosophies, stories, inspiration, and advice from the author's own life and the numerous creative mentors and collaborators that he has encountered throughout his career.

The sky is the limit when inspiration strikes and a new idea starts to take shape in your mind.

This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.

When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn't expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to try to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove, and decades later, he is a six-time Grammy Award-winning musician, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, a New York Times bestselling author, a producer, an entrepreneur, a cofounder of one of hip-hop's defining acts (the Roots), and the genre's unofficial in-house historian. In this landmark book, Hip-Hop Is History, Questlove skilfully traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits-and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story of a cultural revolution and a sweeping, grand theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. And Questlove, of course, approaches it with not only the encyclopaedic fluency and passion of an obsessive fan but also the expertise and originality of an innovative participant. Hip-hop is history, and also his history.

"A comprehensive fifty-year history of the hip-hop genre"--

Grammy winner Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson makes his middle grade debut in this fun, series opening adventure where two best friends travel back in time, inadvertently rewriting the future.Not allowed to have a cell phone or laptop by his tech-minimalist parents, thirteen-year-old Rahim relies on his best friend and tech-genius, Kasia, for help with his homework and most importantly, to record and post his rap songs online. A master inventor, Kasia loves devising new gadgets and testing them on, ahem, sharing them with, Rahim. Her latest surprise-a cell phone she's built from scratch complete with a kinetic battery and a not-so-legal cell signal from government satellites.When Rahim uses it the two quickly learn this cell phone is not like others, and as its first beta-testing user, Rahim is encountering some sizable glitches-namely time travel. Ecstatic at the chance to do something he's only dreamed of, Rahim uses the phone to see his favorite hip-hop group live before they broke up in the late 90s, only to find himself stuck in the past. With Kasia as his only lifeline to the present, they'll have to work together to find a way to bring Rahim home without destroying their timeline and dodging bullies and suspicious government officials along the way.It's about to get messy, but if there is anything Rahim is good at, it's finding the right beat to get out of trouble.