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The second annual Basque Culinary World Prize has announced it's top 10 finalists. Roy Choi, Daniel Patterson and José Andrés are among those nominated.

Here's a look inside LocoL in Los Angeles's Watts neighborhood, with photos and perspective by Daniel Carnaje, in the wake of the Times's zero-star review.

In June, Food Republic is counting the many reasons to love Asian food in America right now. Here's one of them.How do you familiarize apprehensive non-Asians with the weird, wild world of East Asian baked goods? For pastry chef Marian Mar, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, it’s easy: She puts her own experiences into every…

Two chefs, one restaurant critic and ten hot sauces. That was the scene at a ramen restaurant in Los Angeles recently, where three influential food figures came together to settle a simple question: Which hot sauce reigns supreme?Hot sauce has grown into a thriving industry over the years. The days of half-empty bottles of Tabasco…

[caption id="attachment_75029" align="alignnone" width="700" ] LAX travelers can expect the same dishes synonymous with Roy Choi's other LA Kogi trucks.[/caption] The food at major airports nationwide is certainly on the rise. High-profile terminal reconstructions headed up by major hospitality companies and big-name chefs have become commonplace over the past couple of years, highlighted by last…

Food trucks were once the bad boys of dining, stalked like rock stars via Twitter feeds by hungry fans. But nowadays, food trucks are just as much a part of the dining establishment as chefs’ tables and gastropubs. Big chains like Applebee’s and Taco Bell have started using the popularity of curbside eating to promote…

Food & Wine magazine released this cookbook in honor of the 25th anniversary of their "Best New Chef" awards (something we look forward to every year). This collection of the honorees' 100 best recipes is essentially guaranteed success in the kitchen, so acquire one ASAP and get started on Roy Choi's double cheeseburgers, Los Angeles-style.…

For many Korean-Americans and Southern Californians alike, Roy Choi is a hero. His empire of taco trucks, called Kogi, were innovators in their use of social media. Who would have thought Twitter could bring 150 hungry people to a supermarket parking lot? Choi invented that. Ever eaten a Korean short rib taco, an appealing mashup of…

“I’m going to get into it, man,” says Roy Choi to a packed house at last month’s MAD Symposium in Copenhagen (read our reports from Day 1 and Day 2-3). “With so many paved roads, farmers markets, great weather, restaurants and so much tree to smoke, we should be happy as clams,” he jokes. “But…

In this, the year of Asian hipster cuisine in New York City (New York magazine's words, not ours), it should be noted that Los Angeles food truck pioneer, hurricane popcorn maker and early Odd Future supporter Roy Choi was the original Asian hipster chef. OK, that is a crazy debatable statement, but the guy is…

I couldn’t stop eating Roy Choi’s hurricane popcorn. I was over an hour into a late lunch at A-Frame in Culver City and a large mound of his corn pops, dusted with pineapple, bacon and a furikake mixture, was still in front of me, waiting to be conquered. The dish is classic Choi—fun, inventive and…

Over the past few years, Los Angeles’ new wave of style-conscious food trucks have become icons of this Southern California city as recognizable as the Hollywood sign. Enterprising, fantastically diverse, emblazoned with tattoo-like truck wraps, they mirror the crowds that follow them on the street, and on Twitter. It’s been a while since “gourmet taco”…

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