koreamjournal: Pulling Off the White Tablecloth
LA Weekly: 2008 is the year that Roy Choi debuted his Kogi truck, and it also was the year that Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo opened Animal, a restaurant initially viewed as a novelty place that put bacon in dessert. Now we can see these events as harbingers of a new and very personal kind of cooking in a city that really needed it.
The best chefs are no longer found at the most expensive restaurants. In Los Angeles, a majority work in midrange or pop-up restaurants.
Choi sees a direct relationship between the economy and this city’s embrace of small, informal restaurants, which offer almost a hallucinatory focus on flavor and pleasure, a kind of cooking that is playful, impolite and a little too messy for a white tablecloth. The intensity of this cooking, he says, can come only with a stripping down of barriers. “With no investors, there is a direct relationship between the chef and the person eating,” he says. “It’s like a musician going on YouTube and just putting his music out there, without the interference and the needs of a label or a producer. The restaurant scene is filled with energy now because people don’t need $100 to sit down and have a fantastic meal.”
25th May 2012
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julia-cooke: Culinary diplomacy at the Havana Art Biennial: ten Cuban chefs and ten New York chefs (including Sara Jenkins of Porchetta and Porsena) just concluded ten days of seating anyone who walked in the door of the restaurant-ish space they opened in the back patio of an Old Havana art space. Proyecto Paladar, as it was called, fed foreigners and locals alike ethnic food not usually often found in Cuba at tables of 12— the amount of people allowed to eat at the in-home restaurants when they were first legalized almost two decades ago. Wanderlust is on high today.
Bruce Seidel is confident the future of food television won’t be seen on television. Which is why the Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran has checked out of network TV to oversee the launch of YouTube’s latest original content channel, HUNGRY. The channel, which goes live on July 2, is expected to feature a freewheeling blend of how-to and celebrity-driven food videos.
nowness: We get cosy with two of the biggest chefs , Massimo Bottura and Nuno Mendes, as they talk food and The Worlds 50 Best Restaurants
In the rarefied world of French high-gastronomy, few women have found a place in the kitchen. Anne-Sophie Pic is the country’s only three-Michelin-star female chef. Ms. Pic, 42 years old, is the third generation to run the Maison Pic in Valence in southern France. There’s a formal restaurant, a casual bistro, a small hotel and a cooking school. The Pic men were famous chefs. Anne-Sophie’s grandfather, father and brother all ran the establishment. But in the mid-1990s, Ms. Pic’s brother lost the valuable third Michelin star. In 1998, he hung up his apron and handed over the family business to his younger sister.
CHRISTINA PASSARIELLO - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL - SEPTEMBER 17 2011
