Ode to Travel

Acclaimed chef, surfer, and photographer Patrick Trefz features in his third powerHouse title scours the globe to home in on spots offering tasty visuals of innovative local dishes, supreme surfing nooks, and camaraderie with fellow chef surfers. Includes three dozen regional recipes.

From Tunis to Teahupo'o, Stornoway to Salina Cruz, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles--mixing the metropolitan and the deeply rural--award-winning photographer and filmmaker Patrick Trefz brings food and culture from across the globe to his latest book, "Ode to Travel."  Well known throughout the surf world for his decades of magazine-cover-worthy images, Trefz has also become known in food circles for his work documenting the farm-to-table movement and championing traditions of regional cuisine. "Ode to Travel," traces a prolific career in international photography, as well as Trefz' innate ability as a traveler to become part of the scenes he finds himself in--not merely as an observer, but as a participant. Connecting landscape and seascape, people and food, "Ode to Travel" reminds its viewers that the world contains layers, that unique cultures define communities, and that simple pleasures bring color to living. "Ode to Travel" includes 35 recipes from the places Trefz' has come to know, each serving as an invitation to taste local flavors, since food, of course, is the most-intimate representation of culture.  

"A lot of people take pictures in this surf world, but few do so with the deft or depth of Trefz; his work captivates the visual senses, but also has a way of telling a much deeper story than what is visibly there. Stuff that stirs more emotion and provokes more thought and is real--far from the fallacious, mass-produced, posed shit that's often churned out in the surf world. He keeps true to what inspires him intellectually and visually, and applies his vision and the many documentary mechanisms he's mastered, to create simulations of the way he sees the world."
--Rusty Long, professional surfer