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- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on Julia Child, Paul Prudhomme, Sara Moulton - and obviously, Emeril's first show had a huge impact on my life.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of artists and chefs don't talk about this, but sometimes you just don't get to the finish line. That honesty and tenderness is something we're kind of not supposed to express.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I translate Hawaii as a place where people make sure I'm having a great time, eating terrific food, without any expectation of anything in return. It's a place for people to be happy. It sounds corny, but in Hawaii, it's not; it's uncorny.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come out of the ocean after surfing all day, loco moco is the best thing you ever tasted.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew of the 'Gilmore Girls' - I wasn't a rabid fan, but I watched it sporadically when it was first on.
- Los Angeles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to pay homage to Los Angeles.
- Pizza
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- Nov 07, 2020
I typically like Sicilian pizza.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times in television, you don't get the opportunity to show real life because we're brainwashed to believe the propaganda that these things aren't marketable, that these things don't sell.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents and friends, they're Ph.D.s that worked as custodians, that owned their own businesses, that went bankrupt, that moved seven times, that sent their kid to Harvard, that don't have any money for retirement. Highs and lows of life.
- Essential Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food trucks are an essential part of people's days. They are important to the fabric of feeding people, like hotel chefs cooking breakfasts or for weddings.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that make Korean food delicious are garlic, ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, chili powder, and chili paste. They make anything delicious.
- Gate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain foods that are somewhat sacred or you're not supposed to mess with. When you do mess with them, it touches a nerve where you have to compare it to the original, and then that thing you're creating has a loosing change right out of the gate.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a fun side and a serious side.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm in a place where I feel comfortable not being a chef anymore. That's taboo in our industry. 'Chef' is supposed to be the ultimate end of the road.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chefs have always been leaders, but now, because of social media and the evolution of the chef identity, we have a voice that expands beyond cooking.
- Korean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to go to a Korean salon.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only if you're from L.A. do you know Elysian Park.
- Wanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a topographer when I was young.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many hobbies or talents other than cooking, but I've always been good at figuring out a city.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.
- Fountain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I make milkshakes at home, but the two best are at at Gulfstream and Disney's Soda Fountain on Hollywood Boulevard.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be a chef.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pico Union is an underrated part of L.A., and not a lot of people go unless you live there.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't go for average.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up around food and in a restaurant, so it never dawned on me that this was a thing to do; it just was. Then I found it as a profession in my mid-twenties after years of bad decisions and depression. The first step was going to the bookstore and learning about this craft. Then applying in kitchens and just getting to work.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking is not a craft to get into for money. The money may come, or it may not. But you must get into it for the craft and the culture.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to high school in Orange County.
- County
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know all about Orange County.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really have a strategy for social media. I think that's my strategy is that I don't have a strategy.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of feel for the vegetable world - the vegetarian world. It's almost as if people look at them like aliens or foreigners.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Animals have been talking to me. And any shaman will say that that's not that weird.
- Chef
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh yeah, the 'Chef' movie was awesome.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized why I can cook for different environments. Because of everything I've gone through growing up. Why can I cook for a Hollywood event without blinking an eye? Because I cooked at the Beverly Hilton and because I moved to Villa Park. Why can I cook for kids on Hollywood Boulevard at night? Because I went through it.
- Embassy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can I cook for tourists that come and visit L.A. and are so excited to see the Kogi truck? Because I cooked at country clubs and Embassy Suites hotels.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Straight up, Oreos, sodas, chips, salsa dips, egg white omelets, yogurts, breads, ketchups, mustards, barbecue sauce, frozen pizzas, hot pockets, ice cream, all these things that you eat in your normal life - I think if chefs got more involved in that, then it could be better. Because we're the ones that know flavor.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
At my lowest point, I found cooking.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was watching TV and saw the 'Emeril' show, and it spoke to me. I went out and started researching the culinary world and chefs that I knew nothing about. Then I moved to New York and went to culinary school, and everything just fit like a glove. It's been on ever since.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Go out one day and treat yourself. Go out and have the best sushi you can find, or go to the best barista in your city and have just a cup of cappuccino, and tell yourself that you deserve this. I think that is very empowering.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that a lot of times, we all want to help each other and be a part of each other's lives. It's just - we don't allow ourselves into each other's lives.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a lot of experience under my belt, but I still have a very naive and idealistic outlook on life.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Public television is a very important thing for our human race, and it allows us the ability to discuss the elephants in the room and understand stories beyond the headlines.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV is a hard thing to do. It's a hard thing to get a show.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
A-Frame was a real, pivotal moment because that's where I really got to channel a lot of emotions.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
A-Frame became an expression of creating a place where everyone would feel comfortable, even if you were made to feel uncomfortable in restaurants before. It's a place where I explored my own insecurities as far as being mistreated in restaurants or being given the worst table.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a salary man for so many years. I never had to worry about the ins and outs of business or entrepreneurship or funding. I just had to show up and do my job. And then, all of a sudden, I was having to be responsible for my own business.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kogi changed what a generation eats, introducing people to fermentation and different vegetables and flavors.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived through a lot of different neighborhoods.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a latchkey kid, from 4 or 5 years old.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020