Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) has aired a neat segment as part of their Emerging Communities desk entitled, "Is Los Angeles an Emerging Hot Sauce Capital?" The piece acknowledges the role of immigration in the changing palates of Americans, especially in Southern California, and the increasing diversity of hot sauce flavors in our food. As someone who learned early in life -- long before the rise of the Kogi taco -- that kimchi can go on almost everything (turkey sandwiches, pizza, spaghetti, etc.), the piece was a familiar reminder of the many benefits of migration and diversity.

For more on the relationship between immigration and food, check out Ernesto Hernandez Lopez's Seton Hall Law Review article, Sriracha Shutdown: Hot Sauce Lessons on Local Privilege and Race, which examines the legal battle surrounding the production of Sriracha in Irwindale, California.

-JKoh

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2016/01/on-immigration-sriracha-and-tapatio.html