Last week the folks behind the Zocalo Public Square lectures turned their attentions to food in polyglot Los Angeles, specifically whether or not a dish can be ever "authentic:"
Authenticity is a virtue many of us prize in our restaurants. But Los Angeles is also a city where the California roll was born and the best pizza hews to a standard more Californian than Neapolitan. [full Zocalo]
The LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold was on hand to moderate a group of chefs that included Nancy Silverton of Mozza, Jimmy Shaw of Lotería Grill and Sarintip "Jazz" Singsanong of Jitlada.
Los Angeles being a town that also privileges the hottest and the latest, Korean taco truck KoGi was represented by chef Roy Choi. Below he explains how they came up with their two-great-tastes-that-taste-great-together invention
KoGi is as much an urban mapping conceptual art piece as it is an eating experience - huh? What? A twittering Korean taco truck? Let me get on my IPhone and find it! - so needless to say the internet tubes are full of video of people eating KoGi's, looking for KoGi's, talking about KoGi's. Here are some of our favorites.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the point of a lunch/taco truck that the food comes to you rather than the other way around?