what s local and delicious? artisanal and authentic and iconically l.a. as it gets? if you re roy choi, you see tacos. and with kogi truck, roy choi brought one of the first great mutation mash-ups of korean and mexican to the people. what started as one truck became four trucks, and three brick-and-mortar restaurants to go with them. for me, kogi was only one truck in my mind, but then the lines got big, you know, and evolved. hola. [ speaking foreign language ] roy trained at the culinary institute of america and interned at la bernardin in new york city. he runs his trucks like someone you d expect from someone with that background. within our food media landscape we ve romanticized certain compositions of what a great chef and great kitchen are supposed to look and smell and feel like, but just because those are beautiful doesn t mean
this city, and that money rolls all around us. but how do we live with it? it s not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here, it s how do we live here, complicit in it? that s the big issue, to be able to be self-reflective about the place, or you just got to go and stay high all the time, because of the shame. i mean, which is another popular way of dealing with living here. is vegas a friendly town? yeah, always friendly, because that s our job. but i mean, to itself. if you re a local. no. no? not a bit. this town doesn t have any respect for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators. we weren t citizens. the new authority is the new power, exactly as anonymous as
what those people do, but of course, i do, because i live in this city, and that money rolls all around us. but how do we live with it? it s not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here, it s how do we live here, complicit in it? that s the big issue, to be able to be self-reflective about the place, or you just got to go and stay high all the time, because of the shame. i mean, which is another popular way of doing a living here. is vegas a friendly town? yeah, always friendly, because that s our job. but you mean, to itself? if you re a local? no. no? not a bit. this town doesn t have any respect for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators. we weren t citizens.
it s not why and where the people come from who do the grotesque things people do here, it s how do we live here, complicit in it? that s the big issue, to be able to be self-reflective about the place, or you just got to go and stay high all the time, because of the shame. i mean, which is another popular way of doing a living here. is vegas a friendly town? yeah, always friendly, because that s our job. but you mean, to itself? if you re a local? no. no? not a bit. this town doesn t have any respect for the people who just happen to live here. in the old days, we were co-conspirators. we weren t citizens. the new authority is the new power, exactly as anonymous as the old power. no access, not a chance.
restaurant in the town doesn t serve any alcohol worried that his pastor would be disappointed if he did. schools try to avoid scheduling events on wednesday evenings because that might conflict with bible study. but two hours north in kansas city, democrats are not a rare and lonely breed. in fact, they are the dominant par party. and wednesday is like any other night of the week. we know there is a big difference between rural and urban america, but what strikes me about this particular article is that this divide is only widening. just look at the house of representatives. over the past 15 year, the percentage of rural america represented by republicans has jumped. while the percentage of urban americans represented by dems has grown a bit. how can this divide be deepening when we are all more connected by technology than we ve ever been? shouldn t increasing our ability make our views more varied rather than consistent? an analysis from david wasserman said in 1992 bill clinton won