Two nights ago, I woke up at 4 a.m. Racing through my mind was one thought:
“Can you accurately say that Noma is “columbising and extracting nopales” to serve on their menu if their head chef for the last two years is a chilango from Mexico City and they are sourcing their masa directly from two of L.A.’s best tortillerías? Kernel of Truth Organics and Komal?”
This Noma controversy has shaken up the international food media world, and dozens of people have personally hit me up about it.
A local podcaster accused L.A.TACO and me, by full name, of not doing enough on both our social media channels and our website to cover Noma, despite covering the protest on opening day.
He was accusing L.A.TACO of being a site “sitting under the guise of local journalism” and said that we deserve a “shitty Yelp review” for it, inaccurately stating we are “sitting this one out” despite the host acknowledging that we did indeed report on it. We published a video that covered the protest in full, along with an article on our website.