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Naked Lunch

Roy Choi

Naked Lunch

Straw Hut Media

Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Phil Rosenthal and David Wild have lunch with award winning chef Roy Choi. Phil, David, Roy, and producers Matt and Mark enjoy Oui Melrose as Roy discusses working with Jon Favreau on Chef, the term “rock star” in the culinary world, and Roy tells The Legend Of Kogi. Plus, Roy talks about his PBS program Broken Bread, his charitable works with Local, and the newly formed Roy Choi Foundation. It’s a delicious episode of Naked Lunch. To learn more about building community through food and Somebody Feed the People, visit the Philanthropy page at Phil Rosenthal World dot com.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. This is Phil Rosenthal, and welcome to Naked Lunch. I'm here with my co-star, David Wild.

0:13.2

And David, before we start, I just want to say to you, because this is an early episode, so maybe you didn't really read everything that it was about, but naked lunch with just a title.

0:27.7

What a bitter taste. This misunderstanding has left in the mouth of everyone in this room, especially Mark and Matt are producers.

0:38.6

I'm a fan of this.

0:40.2

I'm what I'm loving what I'm seeing.

0:40.6

Really?

0:43.9

That's not what you said two minutes ago when you said, my eyes, my eyes.

0:44.9

Oh, I'm blind now.

0:45.4

I love it.

0:48.6

I couldn't find a thing not to wear to this podcast.

0:49.9

Mission accomplished.

0:50.5

Exactly.

0:52.1

David, how are you today?

0:54.6

Are you hungry? Because we have some very good food coming from Wee Melrose, which I know is one of your favorites. I do. I had to resist stopping at every food

1:00.0

truck I saw along the way because our guest today is literally the guy. The king of food truck.

1:04.7

He basically reinvented the food truck and changed America. That's true. And today you're going to get to know him

1:11.9

kind of like how I know him.

1:14.8

I'm still a little in awe of what he's accomplished.

1:18.3

He literally changed the world

1:20.6

by putting Korean barbecue in a taco.

1:24.5

I have to say, with all the great diversity of the city,

1:26.7

there was a problem that not everyone

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