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: Named a Best Book of the Year by Salon and a top pick for the Los Angeles Times Book Club.

: While serving time in California's maximum-security prisons, he discovered his culinary passion by creating innovative "spreads" from limited commissary ingredients, such as tamales made from ground-up Fritos. California_Soul_An_American_Epic_of_Cooking_and_Survivalzip

25+ Copies Paperback California Soul (An American Epic of Cooking and Survival) - 9780593243848 by Keith Corbin : Named a Best Book of the Year

: The story was quickly optioned by a major studio to be developed into a television series. : Corbin grew up in the Jordan Downs

: Corbin grew up in the Jordan Downs housing projects, where he was involved in gang culture and began cooking crack at age 13.

The memoir is widely praised for its "unflinchingly honest" portrayal of survival and for challenging the simplified "gangbanger redemption" narrative often found in media.