L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food

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Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; town that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who determined to go away at the back of fine dining to feed town he loved—and, with the creation of the Korean taco, reinvented street food along the way in which.

Abounding with both the food and the stories that gave upward push to Choi’s inspired cooking, L.A. Son takes us throughout 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 most efficient taquerias within the country, to, at last, the curbside view from one among 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 town from which it takes its name, as it tells the transporting, unlikely story of how a Korean American kid went from lowriding within the streets of L.A. to becoming an acclaimed chef.

Featured Recipes from L.A. Son

Abalone Porridge

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Carne Asada

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Kimchi Pupusa

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