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A Dosa Hunt; 3-D Printed Food; Jonathan Gold on Chego
A filmmaker follows seven first-generation American musicians on a dosa hunt through New York City. Plus, Jonathan Gold reviews Roy Choi's Chego in Chinatown.
By Evan Kleiman • • 56m ListenHave you ever been on a hunt for a specific dish? Amrit Singh has. The music journalist and filmmaker instigated a dosa hunt in New York City and chronicled the journey in his short film, Dosa Hunt. Zach Brooks carries out his own food hunt every day as the blogger behind Midtown Lunch LA. He discusses his favorite day-time eats on the Sawtelle strip. Jonathan Gold waxes poetic about the rice bowls at Chego while chef/owner Roy Choi says he couldn't be happier with the restaurant's new digs in Chinatown. Alex Brown and Evan George - aka the Hot Knives - offer advice on throwing a vegetarian summer bash, and Amanda Cohen, chef and owner of the vegetable restaurant Dirt Candy, shares tips for elevating vegetarian cuisine. Plus, technology journalist Christopher Mims reports on a 3-D printer that can print chocolate. At the market, Laura Avery gets artichoke advice from chef Brooke Williamson, and fruit detective David Karp is very excited about apricots.
Banner image: Still from Dosa Hunt, a film by Amrit Singh (That's him in the beige shirt.)
In this episode
8 storiesChego: It's More than Just a Rice Bowl
Roy Choi recently relocated his Westside rice bowl concept, Chego , to Chinatown. The new digs once belonged to the original Mandarin Deli, where Angeleno's were first introduced to hand pulled noodles in the 1970's. Jonathan Gold is a fan of Choi's enormous flavor-bomb rice bowls.
Read the story1 minDirt Candy: A Vegetable Restaurant
Amanda Cohen is the chef and owner of Dirt Candy in New York's East Village. Dirt Candy : A Cookbook: Flavor-Forward Food from the Upstart New York City Vegetarian Restaurant is part cookbook and part graphic novel and the roller coaster adventure of opening a restaurant.
Read the story1 minThe Art of Eating Vegetables and Throwing Parties
Evan George and Alex Brown are the Hot Knives . Their latest book Lust for Leaf : Vegetarian Noshes, Bashes and Everyday Great Eats. The Hot Knives Way shows off their lovable (and often irreverent) vegetarian cooking style and epic party-throwing abilities.
Read the story1 min3-D Printed Chocolate
Christopher Mims is a technology and science correspondent for Quartz. Last month he reported on a 3-D printer that can print chocolate. A Texas based industrial company was given a grant to produce the printer. Potential uses include the 2030 Mars mission and military applications.
Read the story1 minMarket Report
Brooke Williamson and her husband, Nick Roberts, are the chef/owners of The Tripel in Playa del Rey and Hudson House in Redondo Beach. This week Williamson is shopping for globe artichokes from Life's a Choke farmstand. At the Tripel she steams them for 40 to 45 minutes, cleans them, cuts them in half and grills the halves.
Read the story1 minRoy Choi Talks about the Chinatown Debut of Chego
Roy Choi, owner of the Kogi truck, says that he could never have imagined opening his new restaurant, Chego , in Chinatown. He says that all of his neighbors have brought over Buddhas and showered him with good will and generosity.
Read the story1 minDosa Hunt
Amrit Singh is the Executive Editor of Stereogum . His new film, Dosa Hunt , is a short documentary that follows seven first-generation American musicians on a dosa hunt through New York City.
Read the story1 minEating Lunch on the Sawtelle Strip
Zach Brooks is the face behind Midtown Lunch LA and the co-host of the podcast, Food Is the New Rock . He says Sawtelle, often dubbed "Little Osaka," has become his favorite lunch destination in Los Angeles. He recommends: Tsujita Tsujita Annex Seoul Sausage Vietnamese, Nong La Bun Bo Hueh Pho Bun Rock Star Dumplings
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