Steve Bloom

Co-Author Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide Stoner & Life; Former High Times Editor; Current CelebStonr.com Publisher

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A rocky ride from start to finish, Evan Marcus-Rotman's Convictions of a Chef is part Fear and Loathing and part Anthony Bourdain foodie travel guide. Busted for LSD in his early twenties, Marcus-Rotman ... sets off on an epic journey ... searching for a settling presence in his transient life. Aided by magic mushrooms and the music of the Grateful Dead, Marcus-Rotman finally finds what he's been looking for. (from Amazon)

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.