Holiday books that check all the boxes:

First We Surf, Then We Eat: Recipes From a Lifetime of Surf Travel, a beautiful cookbook and travel memoir by Jim Kempton who has spent his life traveling and surfing the world.

Along the way, Kempton learned to cook the world’s best beach-loving dishes. Now he’s shares his vividly colorful, richly flavorful, and vibrantly healthful collection of more than 90 recipes, along with stories of the best waves, markets, restaurants, adventures, and misadventures that he’s experienced, from Australia to Hawaii, the Basque Country to Indonesia, California to Mexico.

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