Aloha!
Thank you for buying our book. Before you dive into our delicious sea of recipes, we’d like to introduce ourselves: Celia Farrar and Guy Jackson, two Londoners who fell in love with poke – pronounced poh-kay.
Pathway to Poke
Our poke story began in 2012. On a trip to LA, Celia was taken to a local hole-in-the-wall spot called Poke Poke on Venice Beach, where the team were doling out pots of delicious marinated fish to a hungry queue of surfers, skaters and locals.
After teaming up with fellow food enthusiast Guy, we began thinking about how we could bring this sunny, laid-back attitude to London. After months of obsessive research and recipe testing (and a cheeky trip to Hawaii) we started Eat Poke, London’s first poke eatery, trading with Kerb, Street Feast and Druid Street food markets.
Now we want to share our poke with you. With Celia’s background in fashion and Guy’s in branding, design plays an important role in our dishes and the look of our first recipe book. We hope you enjoy creating these vibrant, healthy and seriously tasty tropical bowls.