This Michelin-starred chef wants to feed people. So she closed her restaurants
LA TimesIt’s been over a year since Minh Phan closed her Los Angeles restaurants, but the refrigerator at her former Porridge + Puffs dining room in Historic Filipinotown is full. “ is an opportunity for us to cross audiences and amplify the meaning of nutrition equity, food equity and building generational health.” Minh Phan at the Food Forward Pit Stop in Bell. “I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for war, for bombs.” A collection of photographs posted inside Minh Phan’s trailer studio at the Food Forward Pit Stop help inspire her work. “I came up with 10 different installations that I wanted to represent what Food Forward and the space meant to me.” Each of the installations is designed to use Phan’s personal history to unlock the collision of war, one of the most unnatural things in the world, and the most natural act of feeding people. I would like this work to be part of the zeitgeist.” For more information or to purchase tickets to Phan’s Food Forward show and dinner on October 19, visit foodforward.org.