Trap Kitchen

Trap Kitchen: Bangin’ Recipes From Compton by Malachi Jenkins, Roberto Smith and Marisa Mendez             Audio Book: 51 minutes    Paperback Book:  120 pages        

Malachi Jenkins and his friend since childhood Roberto Smith grew up in rival gangs but remained friends.    Malachi learned to cook at the age of 7 years old asking his mother to show him how to cook breakfast, then getting more adventurous through middle-school with recipes that entailed more ingredients, more work and more praise for his culinary skills.   Malachi went through some hard times during his highschool years and later did a few stretches of time incarcerated.   He got back into cooking when he got out just a bit for family and friends, then people started offering to pay him to cook different stuff for them, word got out and even celebrities started hitting him up on Instagram to cook for them.   He and his partner Roberto saw that this could turn into a money making venture so they began cooking together out of Malachi’s house then doing a pop-up restaurant.  Snoop, Kanye and Kim, and others spread the word to their celebrity friends and the two friends’ business turned into a catering business as well.   Their popularity has continued to increase and oh my gosh when you hear or see the recipes he discusses in the book, let me tell you, I am salivating just thinking of it.   Mmmm, mmmm, mmmmm.    Makes me wish I lived near enough to go get some.   O.K. he does give their recipes and theoretically I could cook these delectable food dreams myself, and likely will eventually, right now I just fantasizing about walking up and picking up some carryout.  If only!      This book is excellent.    It is a feast for your mind as well as your body.   Learning how a young man came up and created his own dream and made it come true along with his best friend.    Congratulations to both men.     Live the dream and all that comes with it gentlemen, you deserve it.   One warning to would be readers,  he is  very real and genuine and speaks the truth straight out of Compton, so, if the reader might be offended by curse words, just make that scrunchy face and keep reading or listening because it will be so worth it to hear his story and check out his divine recipes.   Man, is it lunchtime, yet?