Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef’s memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it’s the story of how one boy grew into a man in the trenches of a cruel and senseless drug war, and embraced food, music and travel with all that he had. Gritty, vulnerable and humorous, Chef Evan delves into the ethics of the drug war with the same sense of adventure he uses to embrace culinary, cultural and psychedelic exploration.

Evan Marcus-Rotman grew up in Southern California and has traveled to nearly 50 countries. After cutting his teeth in restaurants and hotels and catering, he worked as a private chef on yachts, private islands, estates and on the road with rock bands, before spearheading a successful private chef business in the Silicon Valley. These days he can be found cooking on the South Maui shores, and is happiest when he’s eating, dancing or 53 feet underwater breathing compressed air while neutrally buoyant.

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