Join the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles (ISLA) as we continue our speaker series "Breaking Bread in LA: Connecting Communities and Cultures through Food", This series is compliment to the series of events this semester by Oxy Arts.
Tonight, we welcome Los Angeles Times Writer Gustavo Arellano. He will be giving a talk that expands on his recent article on the history of the Times' coverage of Mexican Food: https://www.latimes.com/food/
Gustavo Arellano is a features writer for the Los Angeles Times and the former publisher and editor of Orange County's alternative weekly OC Weekly, and the author of the column ¡Ask a Mexican!, which is syndicated nationally. Arellano has won numerous awards for the column, including the 2006 and 2008 Best Non-Political Column in a large-circulation weekly from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies, the 2007 Presidents Award from the Los Angeles Press Club and an Impacto Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, and a 2008 Latino Spirit award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus.
The columns were collected in book form in 2008 as ¡Ask a Mexican! Arellano has published two further books: Orange County: A Personal History, and Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.
