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L.A. Son, November 2013
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My Life, My City, My Food
Ecco
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
352 pages
ISBN: 0062202634
EAN: 9780062202635
Kindle: B00BATIKN4
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Non-Fiction Cooking / Food | Non-Fiction Memoir
Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely
cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy
Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to leave behind
fine dining to feed the city he loved—and, with the creation
of the Korean taco, reinvented street food along the
way. Abounding with both the food and the stories that
gave rise to Choi's inspired cooking, L.A. Son
takes us through the neighborhoods and streets most tourists
never see, from the hidden casinos where gamblers slurp
fragrant bowls of pho to Downtown's Jewelry District, where
a ten-year-old Choi wolfed down Jewish deli classics between
diamond deliveries; from the kitchen of his parents' Korean
restaurant and his mother's pungent kimchi to the boulevards
of East L.A. and the best taquerias in the country, to, at
last, the curbside view from one of his emblematic Kogi taco
trucks, where people from all walks of life line up for a
revolutionary meal. Filled with over 85 inspired
recipes that meld the overlapping traditions and flavors of
L.A.—including Korean fried chicken, tempura potato
pancakes, homemade chorizo, and Kimchi and Pork Belly
Stuffed Pupusas—L.A. Son embodies the sense of
invention, resourcefulness, and hybrid attitude of the city
from which it takes its name, as it tells the transporting,
unlikely story of how a Korean American kid went from
lowriding in the streets of L.A. to becoming an acclaimed chef.
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