It’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 …
It’s 4:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and the lights are blazing at Food Forward’s Pit Stop warehouse. Lupe “Papi” Rodriguez uses plastic wrap to stabilize a wobbly pallet of unsold berries, tomatoes and other produce at the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market, before loading it into his truck bound for Food Forward’s warehouse. So even though it’s dark and cold, …
Lucknow’s world-famous food and celebrity chef Ranveer Brar complement each other. Ambassadors of food and culture Brar with visual heritage storyteller Maroof Umar Alongside the famous kebabs, biryanis, chaat and other delicacies, the chef feels it’s the culturally rooted Lucknowites who as proud ambassadors are taking the food legacy forward. My takeaway is that the food story of Lucknow lives …
