Filmmaker Fridolin Schoepper created a video about Roy Choi, the much celebrated chef who started the whole Korean taco and food truck craze. Chef Choi will be part of The Avant/Garde Diaries, a show curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys.
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Korean carrot salad, pronounced Koreyscha Sabzili Salat in the Uzbek language, is ubiquitous throughout the former Soviet Union. The dish was invented by Korean immigrants to Russia’s Far East and the recipe would have stayed there if Stalin hadn’t forcibly deported the Soviet Koreans further west to the Central...
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One of the debates in the Korean food world these days is if it can work as fine dining, if it should work as fine dining, and how. Personally, I have come across so many ham handed efforts that I had admittedly grown cynical. I’m starting to shift. Especially with a restaurant like Myongwolgwan. In full disclosure, I was...
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We interrupt our usual food programming to post a clip of Girls Generation making their U.S. national debut on Late Night with David Letterman. Added bonus Bill Murray Actually, not a bad performance at all. You really see what a small set that is. I also like how Dave says, “Gamsa habnida,” the same way my mother...
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This is another one of my favorite episodes. We did most of this with the new crew, and they were very efficient. This is a good food episode. We travel down the Nakdong River and hit Andong and Busan, two of my favorite towns.
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http://www.vimeo.com/34325792 Other than Seoul, we don’t visit any super famous towns on this trip, but we do have fun. This is one of my favorite episodes. Here are some highlights, commentary, and trivia. This is where our conflicts with the writer start to surface. She wrote some awful stuff that we had to cope and...
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