Surfer, Jim Kempton, author of ‘First We Surf, Then We Eat,’ book signing at Pages Sept. 6

Kempton will be at pages in Manhattan Beach on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m.

Jim Kempton has spent his life traveling and surfing the world, along the way learning to cook the world’s best beach-loving dishes. Now he’s sharing his vividly colorful, richly flavorful, and vibrantly healthful collection of recipes, along with stories of the best waves, markets, restaurants, adventures, and misadventures that he’s experienced—from Tahiti to Hawaii, the Basque Country to Indonesia, California to Mexico, Peru to Morocco and beyond.

“First We Surf, Then We Eat” features a foreword by The Surfer’s Journal publisher Steve Pezman, a chef’s foreword by famed surfer/chef Raphael Lunetta, and photography by Bill Schildge, Jeff Divine, Art Brewer and Tom Servais.

Jim Kempton is a lifelong surfer, cook and writer. He’s been the editor and publisher of Surfer magazine; the director of Quiksilver’s Crossing Project, a boat that searched the world for the best surf breaks; the director of media for Billabong; and the owner of the former Margarita’s Village, an award-winning regional Mexican restaurant in San Clemente, California. The San Clemente resident currently serves as the president of the California Surf Museum.