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Food @latimes 🌞 2022 Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism, 2x JBA nominee. Bilingual border brother. I consume 🌵 daily. Fiat Lux!

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What an absolute honor it is to be listed amongst all of these great restaurants. We are so very proud of our team for being a part of this journey. Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏾

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Usually people dread going to LAX. But it doesn’t have to be that way, L.A., writes @longdrivesouth.

In a new guide, Hernandez reveals his 15 favorite bars and restaurants in a one-mile vicinity of the airport, honed after years of hanging out and dining amid LAX workers and the hardcore locals of Westchester, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lennox and El Segundo.

An estimated 48,000 people have access badges to LAX, making them a sharp but not showy bunch of diners and drinkers, Hernandez writes in his newsletter L.A. Omnivore. This week he offers his ode to Melody Bar & Grill, a focal point for dining culture around LAX, as well as Mariella’s Tacos, a lonchera that’s served the LAX community for nearly three decades. ✈️

Read the full guide at the link in our bio and sign up for the L.A. Omnivore newsletter.

📹 @brendabroadcast, @longdrivesouth

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Salvadoran food has BEEN evolving. You’re just starting to notice. 🇸🇻

For the past five years, I’ve had the privilege of documenting Salvadoran food alongside my friend Eric Valle, aka El Terrible.

We’ve eaten the traditional stuff we grew up with. We’ve documented pupusa donuts, birria pupusas and chefs completely reimagining what Salvadoran food can look like. We visited Popoca in Oakland before its Michelin recognition. We’ve documented Walking Spanish’s journey in L.A. And through Salvi Food Tour, I’ve traveled between California and El Salvador trying to understand where our food has been—and where it’s going.

So seeing chefs like Jimmy Reyes of Leña receive larger media attention genuinely makes me happy.

Because this movement didn’t appear overnight.

There are Salvadoran chefs cooking in fine-dining kitchens, parking lots, pop-ups and restaurants across California who have been doing this work for years.

And there are Salvadoran writers, filmmakers and storytellers who have been documenting it too.

Eric and I sometimes call it the Salvi Renaissance on a plate. Eric has another name for it: alta cocina salvadoreña.

Whatever you call it, something is happening.

And after years of self-financing documentaries, carrying cameras into kitchens and asking people to trust me with their stories, I’m ready to share a lot more of what I’ve been documenting.

Follow @ArchilaBros. 🇸🇻🎥
Song by @dirtysosaa - Cumbiaton

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In the latest edition of L.A. Omnivore, @longdrivesouth discusses a recent dinner at the pop-up Leña @lena.los.angeles, by chef Jimmy Reyes, and poses a question: Why doesn't Los Angeles have an upscale modern Salvadoran restaurant similar to Popoca in Oakland?

Cookbook author Karla Tatiana Vasquez @salvisoul points out that opportunities for Central Americans still remain limited in L.A.

Link in bio to read more.

📸: @el_terrible_eric
🎥: @brendabroadcast

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Allow this to be another sign that when you bank on yourself, and your ideas, cool, cool shit happens.

Tapping into my feelings and thoughts this week while talking about Salvadoran food with @latimes @longdrivesouth. The desire to feel connected and rooted is such a vulnerable one. Imposter syndrome creeps in and a small voice in your mind might say, "who's gonna care?" "quien crees que sos?" "What if they find out I'm a fraud?" Bueno, I see you and know firsthand how hard that struggle can be.

I'm so proud to be a part of this movement in the ways that I am. And if you did something this week where you inched your way closer and closer to a dream or goal, I'm so proud of you too. If you tried making a Salvi dish for the first time, I'm proud of you. If you decided you really love something, I'm proud of you. If you wrote your story down for the first time and felt like you could finally breathe, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of my Híjole y Cafe writing students who finished three weeks of deep writing and memory. I'm proud of you for daring to connect to yourself, your roots and your life.

Pls read this LA Times article on the fabulous @lena.los.angeles dinner that is changing the trajectory of Salvadoran cuisine in LA and if you missed it, you can read what I wrote about it for my column, Un Poco de Relajo. Major congratulations again to the whole Leña team.

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Pictures of food that make you wanna puke. Not exactly a rousing marketing ploy. Or ... is it?

In the inaugural edition of L.A. Omnivore, Daniel Hernandez’s weekly newsletter on food and culture, @longdrivesouth writes about the rise of menus featuring AI-generated images of food and talks to the owner of Hollywood’s Los Burritos Originales who says his AI signs are bringing in new customers.

📹 @longdrivesouth, @brendabroadcast

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@nativefieldsla in the city of Walnut Ca is one of my favorite restaurants in the SGV. My go-to on the menu is the French Toast and the Ricotta pancakes. Her French toast is a huge slice of brioche, topped with fresh berries and whipped cream with sprinkles of almonds. The Ricotta pancakes are topped blueberries, fruit and some créme fraiche. My wife always gets her favorite, the plate. The food here is incredible and and always made fresh. I'm always going to recommend this spot if you're in the area. Thank you @cattyboombatty for sticking to your mission and making the most delicious food.

@nativefieldsla

📍18750 Amar Rd
Walnut, CA 91789
Open 7days a week

#lapuenteeats #nativefieldsla #farmtotable #organic #womenowned

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Who’s ready for Disciples of the Corn? We’ll be having Elvia one of the creators of this amazing event once again to create some amazing dishes. Buy your tickets before we sold out at Resy/evilcooks and scroll down to the bottom to click on Disciple of the Corn.

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Come and taste some staple desserts from Mexico in hands of the talented @tselly16 from @santacanela.la this September 12th at Cal State LA! Get your tickets at @resy /evilcooks scroll all the way to the bottom and click at “Disciples of the corn” event

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To put together the 101 best tacos in Los Angeles list, @longdrivesouth tells the De Los Podcast that the @latimesfood team got philosophical about what exactly constitutes a taco. Are burritos tacos? Let the taco debate begin in the comments.

🎙️Full episode on YouTube and all podcast platforms.

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La cosecha de 🍀🍄‍🟫🍄 ¡nunca se acaba!
Viva #hongosto viva el Edomex

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Hey journalists - here’s the most common piece of advice from editors: keep it brief

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