Word: kimchi
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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Students had the opportunity to try miraculin tablets with an assortment of fruits, chips, and kimchi...
...Kimchi quesadillas? Roy Choi turns street food into high art at time.com/kogi...
Choi, who does his proselytizing from a fleet of culinary clunkers, became the leader of this movement not just by creating a whole new cuisine--a mashup of Korean and Mexican food that has given rise to short-rib tacos and kimchi quesadillas--but by dishing out punk attitude. Peer inside one of his Kogi taco trucks (the name is Korean for meat), and you'll see him yelling in Spanglish, baseball hat askew, arms tatted up, hands flying like a rapper's. This is performance art, and people often wait in hour-long lines for the privilege of snarfing...
Choi's low-cost philosophy--and his kimchi quesadilla--inspired Beth Kellerhals, a former chef at Chicago's Hot Chocolate, to take him her beer-and-pretzel ice cream sandwich and persuade him to start selling her desserts. "Working in fine dining, I liked the precision and commitment to good ingredients, but it's just food," she says. "Don't take it so seriously. Have fun while you're eating...