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The Top Ten Culinary Trends of 2009
December 16, 2009
With the many culinary breakthroughs that bubbled to the surface of the national restaurant scene in recent months, 2009 is fated to be remembered as a year of culinary renaissance. Perhaps the recession was the muse that sparked everyone’s renewed thinking about food, serving portions, costs, and restaurant business models. It’s the year that gourmet kitchens turned mobile, restaurants discovered the benefits of local meats and produce, and Americans explored “the fifth taste.” Above all, it was the year in which America’s renewed interest in well-crafted, high quality meals reached its defining moment. There’s never been a better time to eat in America. Below are ten reasons why.
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Follow the Tweeter: Kogi Introduces a New Mobile Restaurant
August 25, 2009
One of the fastest-expanding gourmet food truck empires on L.A.’s blossoming mobile restaurant scene is Kogi (pronounced with a hard “g”). This Twittering L.A. Korean-BBQ-on-wheels was created by media-savvy owner Mark Manguera and chef Roy Choi (formerly of NYC’s Le Bernardin). It’s a concept that’s Web 2.0 to the core: Tweet location changes for your food truck every couple of hours, wait for the lines to form, then serve up creative combinations of spicy Korean BBQ-style chicken, tofu, pork, or ribs on corn tortillas, topped with sesame-chili salsa roja, Korean chili-soy vinaigrette slaw, cilantro-green onion-lime relish, and crushed sesame seeds.
Manguera and Choi have deftly pinpointed a crossroad between modern fusion food culture and the latest in mobile technology, but it’s not just the relative novelty of a Twitter-centric food service that tickles us; it’s the community that the creators are building around their mobile establishment. The lines at Kogi are gaining a reputation as indie meeting grounds where Twitterers engage in a less modern practice known as face-to-face conversation. Check out Kogi’s endearingly enthusiastic blog for a glimpse of the Kogi dining experience.
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