<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Carlos Salgado Archives - LA Elements</title> <atom:link href="https://laelements.com/tag/carlos-salgado/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link></link> <description>What Moves Los Angeles</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 02:42:01 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <item> <title>LA Food Bowl 2019 Opens With Mesamérica LA and DFiesta.</title> <link>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2019-opens-with-mesamerica-la-and-dfiesta/</link> <comments>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2019-opens-with-mesamerica-la-and-dfiesta/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elva Zevallos]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2019 02:08:50 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carlos Salgado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Enrique Olvera]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Javier Garciadiego]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LA Food Bowl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[La Fuitaria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mesamérica]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mesamérica LA]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pujol]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sanctuary Oysters]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://laelements.com/?p=3401</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>    LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 5/26/2019 – “The better we understand each other, the more successful we can be in our kitchens,” says Enrique Olvera, owner and chef of Pujol. Not a day goes by during the month of May when you don’t hear something about LA Food Bowl. This mega event gives […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2019-opens-with-mesamerica-la-and-dfiesta/">LA Food Bowl 2019 Opens With Mesamérica LA and DFiesta.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://laelements.com">LA Elements</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_3403" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3403" class="wp-image-3403 size-full" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Mesamerica-Audience-Will-T-Tang.jpg" alt="The audience for the Mesamérica LA segment of the program." width="640" height="427" /><p id="caption-attachment-3403" class="wp-caption-text">It was a full house for the Mesamérica event at the Million Dollar Theater.</p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 5/26/2019 – “The better we understand each other, the more successful we can be in our kitchens,” says Enrique Olvera, owner and chef of <a href="https://pujol.com.mx/en/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pujol.</a> Not a day goes by during the month of May when you don’t hear something about <a href="https://lafoodbowl.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LA Food Bowl.</a> This mega event gives Angelenos the chance to indulge in their favorite foods and even get up close and personal with some of the most acclaimed chefs of our day. (Olvera’s Pujol consistently ranks among the top 50 restaurants in the world.) Kicking of LA Food Bowl 2019 was Mesamérica and DFiesta which took place on April 30 in downtown Los Angeles. This event was so huge that it needed three venues: The Million Dollar Theater, Grand Central Market and La Cita.</p> <p>The evening started off strong with Mesamérica LA at the Million Dollar Theater. Mesamérica LA celebrated the special relationship that Los Angeles and Mexico City have with each other as sister cities. <em>(hermanamiento</em>) This symposium was curated by Olvera, and LA Times Food Editor, Peter Meehan. An array of notable speakers were on hand to explore art, architecture, identity, and Mexican cuisine. Among the speakers were: Norma Listman, Chef and Co-Owner of <a href="https://www.masalaymaiz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Masala y Maiz,</a> (Mexico City), Javier Garciadiego, architect from Infonavit’s Research Center for Sustainable Development (Mexico City) Wendy Kaplan, curator at LACMA and author of “Found In Translation,” and Carlos Salgado, whose restaurant <a href="http://www.tacomaria.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taco Maria</a>, was the LA Times “Restaurant of the Year” for 2018.</p> <div id="attachment_3404" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3404" class="size-full wp-image-3404" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Carlos-Salgado.jpg" alt="Chef Carlos Salgado of Taco Maria, addresses the audience during the Mesamérica symposium." width="640" height="427" /><p id="caption-attachment-3404" class="wp-caption-text">Chef Carlos Salgado addresses the audience at the Mesamérica LA symposium.</p></div> <p>At Mesamérica LA, Salgado revealed that he is using his success to give opportunities to the next generation of young immigrants and children of immigrants. “Within my work at Taco Maria, I began to take this role of trying to create opportunities for young Mexican American kids or children of immigrants, to express themselves through food and to think academically, scientifically, sociologically, politically about the work that they do. Think about where their stories come from because of their cuisine, so that we might generate more culture that is founded on the richness of cultures.”</p> <div id="attachment_3405" style="width: 598px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3405" class="size-full wp-image-3405" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Javier-Garcia-Diego.jpg" alt="Javier Garciadiego at the 2019 LA Food Bowl event, Mesamérica LA" width="588" height="418" /><p id="caption-attachment-3405" class="wp-caption-text">Architect Javier Garciadiego</p></div> <p>During the symposium, architect Javier Garciadiego, noted the unique geography of Mexico City and how it manages to be home to so many people who bring their own unique flair to creating a memorable cuisine. “So Mexico City was settled on this extraordinary site on a complex map of lakes that sit in the middle of a valley, that is 2500 meters high above sea level and is surrounded by even taller mountains and volcanoes. There’s probably nowhere else in the world that is perfectly fit to receive 20 million inhabitants. In Mexico City we have the certainty, the floods and the earthquakes and the volcano eruptions this happened this year that the soil that we are on, is very much alive. In this magnificent setting, we overlay our reality of 20 million people. Each of them with their own desires and with their own goals and with their own recipes. And this makes for an extraordinary soup of energy and force.”</p> <p>At the conclusion of Mesamérica LA, the audience headed over to <a href="https://www.grandcentralmarket.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grand Central Market</a> for the DFiesta segment of the evening. The offerings at DFiesta were many and included <a href="https://www.sanctuaryoysters.com/services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sanctuary Oysters</a>, <a href="http://www.guerrillatacos.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guerrilla Tacos</a>, <a href="http://www.horsethiefbbq.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Horse Thief Barbecue </a>,<a href="https://www.grandcentralmarket.com/vendors/1388/la-fruteria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">La</a> <a href="https://www.grandcentralmarket.com/vendors/1388/la-fruteria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fruitaria,</a> <a href="http://www.sol.com/us/AgeGateway?returnurl=/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sol Beer</a> and more. Then, it was off to <a href="http://www.lacitabar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">La Cita</a> for cocktails and the end to a memorable night filled with great conversation and food and drink. Pretty much what you would expect from the opening night of the 2019 LA Food Bowl.</p> <div id="attachment_3408" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3408" class="size-full wp-image-3408" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Enrique-Olvera-With-Fans.jpg" alt="Enrique Olvera signs autographs after the Mesamérica program." width="640" height="426" /><p id="caption-attachment-3408" class="wp-caption-text">Enrique Olvera meets up with fans after the program.</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_3407" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3407" class="size-full wp-image-3407" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Guerrilla-Tacos.jpg" alt="Guerrilla Tacos was a crowd pleaser at LA Food Bowl's Mesamérica DFiesta." width="640" height="427" /><p id="caption-attachment-3407" class="wp-caption-text">The line for Guerrila Tacos was no joke-but so worth the wait!</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_3409" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3409" class="size-full wp-image-3409" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sanctuary-Oysters.jpg" alt="Sanctuary Oysters at LA Food Bowl 2019 DFiesta." width="640" height="427" /><p id="caption-attachment-3409" class="wp-caption-text">The oysters from Sanctuary Oysters were a crowd favorite.</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_3410" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3410" class="size-full wp-image-3410" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/La-Fruiteria.jpg" alt="La Fruitaria at DFiesta, LA Food Bowl 2019" width="640" height="426" /><p id="caption-attachment-3410" class="wp-caption-text">Horchata and a selection of mouth watering fruit juices were among the offerings by La Fuitaria.</p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>LA Food Bowl is running throughout the entire month of May. For more information on the upcoming programs please visit their site.</p> <p>Cover photo and all other photography courtesy of <a href="http://willteeyang.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Will Tee Yang</a></p> <p>Follow LA ELEMENTS on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laelements/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/la_elements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>. Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LAElements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook.</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2019-opens-with-mesamerica-la-and-dfiesta/">LA Food Bowl 2019 Opens With Mesamérica LA and DFiesta.</a> appeared first on <a href="https://laelements.com">LA Elements</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2019-opens-with-mesamerica-la-and-dfiesta/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>LA FOOD BOWL 2018 Opens With A Party To Remember</title> <link>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2018-opens-with-a-party-to-remember/</link> <comments>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2018-opens-with-a-party-to-remember/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Elva Zevallos]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2018 05:34:59 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Events]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Living]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Border Grill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Carlos Salgado]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Chengdu Tast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[City Market South]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Honey's Kettle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hornitos Tequila]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Kris Yenbamroong]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LA Food Bowl]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LA Food Bowl 2018]]></category> <category><![CDATA[LocoL]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Night + Market]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rossoblu]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scopa]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Shibumi]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Taco Maria]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wanderlust Creamery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yoshiro Narisawa]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://laelements.com/?p=2889</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>    LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 5/6/2018 – “Restaurants at their best can be like an escape to beauty, a vision of a better world and I guess I’ve done my best to do that,” says Michelin starred Chef Carlos Salgado, whose restaurant Taco Maria, won the Los Angeles Times 2018 Restaurant of the Year. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2018-opens-with-a-party-to-remember/">LA FOOD BOWL 2018 Opens With A Party To Remember</a> appeared first on <a href="https://laelements.com">LA Elements</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_2891" style="width: 860px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2891" class="wp-image-2891 size-medium" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Carlos-Salgado-Jennifer-Johnson-3-850x566.jpg" alt="Chef Carlos Salgado's restaurant Taco Maria wins Restaurant of the Year at the 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="850" height="566" srcset="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Carlos-Salgado-Jennifer-Johnson-3-850x566.jpg 850w, https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Carlos-Salgado-Jennifer-Johnson-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Carlos-Salgado-Jennifer-Johnson-3.jpg 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2891" class="wp-caption-text">Chef Carlos Salgado accepts the Los Angeles Times Restaurant of the Year Award. Photo: Jennifer Johnson</p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>LOS ANGELES, CA (LA ELEMENTS) 5/6/2018 – “Restaurants at their best can be like an escape to beauty, a vision of a better world and I guess I’ve done my best to do that,” says Michelin starred Chef Carlos Salgado, whose restaurant <a href="http://www.tacomaria.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Taco Maria</a>, won the Los Angeles Times 2018 Restaurant of the Year. LA Times Pulitzer-prize winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, presented Salgado with his award at the launch party for the second annual <a href="http://lafoodbowl.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LA Food Bow</a>l. The LA Food Bowl was established by the LA Times as a month long celebration of the culinary artistry that has made the city of Los Angeles one of the top destinations for innovative cooking. Rock star chefs such as Virgilio Martinez (<a href="http://www.centralrestaurante.com.pe/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Central Restaurante</a>) from Peru and Yoshihiro Narisawa (<a href="http://www.narisawa-yoshihiro.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Narisawa</a>) from Japan, are flying in from around the world to take part in this event.</p> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_2928" style="width: 522px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2928" class="size-full wp-image-2928" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Chef-Yoshihiro-NarisawaJennifer-Johnson-1.jpg" alt="Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa attends the 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="512" height="768" /><p id="caption-attachment-2928" class="wp-caption-text">Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa attends Things In A Bowl, the official launch party of the 2018 LA Food Bowl. Photo: Jennifer Johnson</p></div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_2897" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2897" class="wp-image-2897 size-full" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MarySue-Milliken-and-Susan-F.jpg" alt="Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Fenniger of The Border Grill receive Gold Award at the 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="600" height="600" srcset="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MarySue-Milliken-and-Susan-F.jpg 600w, https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MarySue-Milliken-and-Susan-F-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2897" class="wp-caption-text">“You might know the story, where if a tree falls in a forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?” says Susan Feniger. “If you create wonderful flavors that you think are just amazing, and no one is there to taste them, then what? Your appreciation for what we do, closes a circle. It means we have made a sound. Thank you guys for being here.” Mary Sue Milliken (L) and Susan Feniger receive the Gold Award for their restaurant <a href="http://www.bordergrill.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Grill</a> at The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl Launch Party Things in a Bowl. (Photo by Michael Bezjian/Getty Images</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_2930" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2930" class="wp-image-2930 size-full" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/LA-TImes-Food-Bowl-Cover-1-2.jpg" alt="Things In A Bowl Launch Party for the 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="640" height="427" /><p id="caption-attachment-2930" class="wp-caption-text">There’s always something exciting going on in LA seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The Things In A Bowl launch party for the LA Food Bowl was held on a Monday night. Photo: LA ELEMENTS</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_2932" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2932" class="wp-image-2932 size-full" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/RossobluJennifer-Johnson-1.jpg" alt="Rossoblu hosted the Things In a Bowl launch party for the LA Food Bowl" width="640" height="426" /><p id="caption-attachment-2932" class="wp-caption-text">The scene inside Rossoblu for Things In a Bowl. Photo: Jennifer Johnson</p></div> <p> </p> <p>The Italian restaurant <a href="https://www.rossoblula.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rossoblu</a> at <a href="http://www.citymarketsouth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City Market South </a>in Downtown Los Angeles, was the site of LA Food Bowl’s opening night, on Monday, April 30<sup>th. </sup>The theme for the evening’s special event was, “Things In A Bowl,” and attendees were treated to selections from some of the top restaurants in Los Angeles.</p> <p>Great food and drink are part of what make the nightlife here in LA hard to beat. Sarah Yenbamroong, Chef Kris Yenbamroong’s wife described <a href="http://nightmarketsong.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Night + Market</a> as offering, “Thai food that goes really well with alcohol.” This restaurant dished out their Sahm Chopped Salad to LA Food Bowl guests. Crispy shallots, peanuts, bok choy, Thai chiles, fish sauce, dill, cilantro and mint were among the ingredients giving this salad it’s spicy and addictive flavor.</p> <div id="attachment_2893" style="width: 490px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2893" class="size-full wp-image-2893" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Night-Market-Gina-Skye-1.jpg" alt="Sahm Chopped Salad by NIght + Market at LA Food Bowl 2018" width="480" height="480" srcset="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Night-Market-Gina-Skye-1.jpg 480w, https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Night-Market-Gina-Skye-1-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px" /><p id="caption-attachment-2893" class="wp-caption-text">Sahm Chopped Salad from Night + Market. Photo: Gina Skye</p></div> <p> </p> <p>From <a href="http://www.shibumidtla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shibumi</a> , the Downtown LA izakaya, came this delectable offering: Three-month aged beef shin, tendon, konbu, shitake and sansho tsukudani over organic California koshihikari rice served with takuan daikon pickles.</p> <div id="attachment_2896" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2896" class="size-full wp-image-2896" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ShibumiGina-SKy-1.jpg" alt="Shibumi at 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="640" height="424" /><p id="caption-attachment-2896" class="wp-caption-text">Shibumi at the 2018 LA Food Bowl. Photo: Gina Skye</p></div> <p> </p> <p>“It’s vegetarian, it’s filling, it’s warm. No meat at all. if it wasn’t for the cornbread it would be vegan,” says Justin Terry, Director of Catering for <a href="http://www.welocol.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LocoL</a> “LocoL is really about the people. The food, the restaurant, is all designed to serve people that normally just wouldn’t have access to a place to go buy a decent affordable meal. A lot of the dishes are inspired by them, some of the dishes are designed by them, with our chef’s guidance. A lot of this stuff is stuff that they would normally eat just with a little bit of a twist on it. So red beans and rice with crispy collard greens, that’s something people would normally eat and it’s vegan. We were restaurant of the year last year so it’s a big deal for us. We owe a lot to Jonathan Gold.” LocoL was started by Chefs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson. According to their site, their mission statement reads, “We at LocoL want to live in a world where eating well doesn’t take a lot of money or time, and where healthy food is the easy choice because it’s not only convenient, but absolutely delicious.”</p> <div id="attachment_2894" style="width: 405px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2894" class="size-full wp-image-2894" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/LocoL-Jennifer-Johnson-.jpg" alt="LocoL at the 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="395" height="480" /><p id="caption-attachment-2894" class="wp-caption-text">Comfort food by LocoL. Photo: Jennifer Johnson</p></div> <p> </p> <p>Crafted bowls from Chengdu Taste, DTLA Cheese, Honey’s Kettle, Rossoblu, and Scopa also offered up treats from their acclaimed kitchens.</p> <div id="attachment_2907" style="width: 650px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2907" class="size-full wp-image-2907" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Downtown-LA-CheeseGina-Skye.jpg" alt="Downtown LA Cheese at 2018n LA Food Bowl" width="640" height="424" /><p id="caption-attachment-2907" class="wp-caption-text">Downtown LA Cheese. Photo: Gina Skye</p></div> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://www.hornitostequila.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=int_general&utm_term=hornito%20tequila" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hornitos Tequila</a> kept the drinks flowing and <a href="https://www.wanderlustcreamery.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wanderlust Creamery</a> was on hand to serve some of the finest gelato we’ve ever tasted. “Everything that we have is made in-house,” says Wanderlust Creamery representative Valerie Myers. “All the flavors are artisanal, we use an organic, grass-fed dairy and every recipe that we have is made by one person, our owner Adrienne Borlongan.” The flavors are inspired by places around the world that Borlongan has visited. One delicious example is the fig leaf infused wildflower honey and pistachio Neopolitan, inspired by the countries of the Mediterranean.</p> <div id="attachment_2915" style="width: 370px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2915" class="wp-image-2915 size-full" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Hornitos.jpg" alt="Hornitos Tequila at 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="360" height="480" /><p id="caption-attachment-2915" class="wp-caption-text">Guests enjoyed Palomas and Margaritas courtesy of Hornitos Tequila. Photo: LA ELEMENTS</p></div> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_2914" style="width: 330px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2914" class="size-full wp-image-2914" src="https://laelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Wanderlust-CreameryJennifer-Johnson.jpg" alt="Wanderlust Creamery at 2018 LA Food Bowl" width="320" height="480" /><p id="caption-attachment-2914" class="wp-caption-text">The wait was more than worth it for Wanderlust Creamery. Photo: Jennifer Johnson</p></div> <p> </p> <p>Outstanding food and encounters with some of the most acclaimed chefs in the world aside, what made this event so memorable was the ease with which total strangers struck up conversations with each other. Let’s face it, you can start to learn a lot about someone while standing in line waiting for some pretty amazing food. That’s a special kind of magic that food has, bringing people together, and it was there at Things In a Bowl.</p> <p>The charitable partners for the 2018 LA Food Bowl are: L.A Kitchen, Food Forward and Midnight Mission. <a href="http://www.lakitchen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LA Kitchen</a> is unique in that every 14weeks, their Empower program admits 22 students who were either formerly incarcerated, homeless or ex-foster care. Students in the program then receive training from LA Kitchen chefs and industry professionals. <a href="https://foodforward.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Food Forward</a> distributes fresh surplus produce to people in need. <a href="http://www.midnightmission.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Midnight Mission</a> provides an array of services for our homeless men, women and children including transitional housing, mental health services and job training. The festival’s founding partner is Citi® and sponsors include Nissan, Makers Mark Hornitos and the Italian National Tourist Board.</p> <p><em>LA Food Bowl runs through May 31. On Tuesday, May 8, come and join Chefs Roy Choi (Kogi) Kris Yenbamroong (Night + Market) Andy Ricker (Pok Pok) and more in a tribute to the late Chef Tui Sungkamee of Jittlada at the Line Hotel. For more information on this event click<a href="http://lafoodbowl.com/bowl-events/tribute-to-tui-sungkamee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> here.</a></em></p> <p>*Update* The Los Angeles Times Food Bowl Night Market will be running from May 16-20 at Grand Park. There will be special chef collaborations and demonstrations, live music and of course food from an array of some of LA’s best restaurants and food trucks. Click <a href="http://lafoodbowl.com/bowl-events/night-market/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a> for more info.</p> <p><em> For more information on LA Food Bowl and the restaurants and organizations mentioned in this article, please visit their websites.</em></p> <p><em>Follow LA Food Bowl on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lafoodbowl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a></em></p> <p><em>Follow LA ELEMENTS on <a href="https://twitter.com/la_elements" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laelements/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. Like us on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LAElements/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>.</em></p> <p><em>Cover photo (from l. to r.) of LA Times Staff: Editor-In-Chief Jim Kirk, Food Editor Amy Scattergood, Test Kitchen Director Noelle Carter, Restaurant Critic Jonathan Gold and Food Section Deputy Editor Jenn Harris.</em></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2018-opens-with-a-party-to-remember/">LA FOOD BOWL 2018 Opens With A Party To Remember</a> appeared first on <a href="https://laelements.com">LA Elements</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://laelements.com/la-food-bowl-2018-opens-with-a-party-to-remember/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>