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    Good Food

    Building Honey's Kettle from the ground up

    Vincent Williams began his career in the food industry 40 years ago, working his way up from prepping chickens on the graveyard shift for the Golden Bird company.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jul 7, 2017 • 1 min read

    Vincent Williams began his career in the food industry 40 years ago, working his way up from prepping chickens on the graveyard shift for the Golden Bird company. In 2004, he began serving up his own perfected version of the fried bird at Honey’s Kettle. Williams shares the story of how Honey’s Kettle rose from being in the red at its original location in Compton to the thriving Culver City institution that it is today.

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    1 of 6
    Staying afloat in L.A.'s restaurant biz
    1. 0:00Building Honey's Kettle from the ground upYou’re reading this
    2. 18:13Opening up Biergarten in the middle of Koreatown
    3. 27:48A family's tough decision to shutter Simbal
    4. 40:55Jonathan Gold dines at The Ponte
    5. 44:29Pok Pok closes in Chinatown
    6. 51:19Weathering the storms at Michael's
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

      Producer, Good Food

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    The full episode

    1 of 6
    Staying afloat in L.A.'s restaurant biz
    1. 0:00Building Honey's Kettle from the ground upYou’re reading this
    2. 18:13Opening up Biergarten in the middle of Koreatown
    3. 27:48A family's tough decision to shutter Simbal
    4. 40:55Jonathan Gold dines at The Ponte
    5. 44:29Pok Pok closes in Chinatown
    6. 51:19Weathering the storms at Michael's
    Back to Good Food