How Angelenos Eat Now

This Is a City With Astonishing Food Options. How Can We Make the Healthier Ones Pull Ahead?

Los Angeles, explained KCRW Good Food host Evan Kleiman, is a city of two food worlds that collide at the Grand Central Market downtown. For not a lot of money, communities of color have shopped at the Grand Central Market for produce or quick meals. Now, it’s becoming gentrified, Kleiman said. “New food is infecting it.” Kleiman was moderating a panel about the dietary life of Angelenos, a “Thinking L.A.” event co-presented by UCLA. The setting, which had a large crowd, was the Petersen Automotive Museum. In opening up the …