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...Europe is very depressing, because of its lucid accuracy. In these modern times it is hard to see Europe as a united global power. It was not always like that. There were times when Europe was united (the Roman Empire), powerful (colonial expansion) and wise (the Renaissance). What happened? (Read: "Why France is Selling Warships to Russia...
What's the best book you've read in the past year...
...haven't read a book in a year. I don't read fiction when I'm writing, and it took me a year to write [my new book] Djibouti. I don't like to be reading a book with a certain style while I'm writing one, because I can be influenced by that...
...doesn't really matter that gourmet food trucks were busting out in American cities a few years before Choi parked his first food truck, in November 2008. Or that short-rib tacos weren't even his idea. (A former co-worker's sister-in-law, Alice Shin, had read about a homemade version on a food blog and, as Kogi's publicist, helped hype them through masterful Twitter and website work, which turned the truck's mysterious whereabouts into a hipster happening.) Choi's amazing food has become one of the movement's signature successes. Kogi made $2 million...
...passion is the movement's story. He gets choked up about replacing McDonald's cuisine with freshly prepared, price-competitive, high-end food. "It's convenient to eat horrible food, and it's so difficult to eat great food. It's O.K. to eat flaming-hot Cheetos and never read books or eat vegetables," he says. "This is where we've come as a country, and I'm not cool with...