Everybody Calm Down: Roy Choi Isn’t Vegetarian, He’s Just Talking To The Animals
Dudes, when Roy Choi mused in his blog about becoming vegetarian, he didn’t think that you’d go that nuts over it. (Then again, his company is called “Meat.”)
Nevertheless, the LA Weekly pinned down the chef for a long interview and he revealed the spiritual extent to which animals have told him (as he wrote in his blog post last week) to stop eating meat due to the way it’s processed.
“Animals have been talking to me,” he reiterated. “And any shaman will say that that’s not that weird. So they’ve been telling me to stop. One of my best friends told me: If animals are talking to you, you better fucking listen dude. So I wrote that, and then I was thinking, well, if I can’t cook with meat, then I gotta explore how I can cook. And I was just going to stop eating meat for a while. But I don’t know how becoming a vegetarian and a vegan came from that.”
He muses that the bizarre fallout from his post comes from the new echo chamber that is the food world –bloggers and chefs alike. “I didn’t know my words carried any weight. And I sure as hell don’t want to walk on eggshells about how I write or speak…[but] even with the new bubble of bloggers and this new thing of chefs being out there, we think our world is so huge. But this stuff is a very, very small speck of how others are eating out there.
“I just want to be the ODB on this shit, because I don’t care about the industry accepting me or nor, or me lighting fires or not. I’m very aware that it only continues to feed itself.” And with that observation, The Braiser continues its precarious existence fueled on snark and self-loathing.
The rest of the article is completely worth reading. It’s three long pages of Choi talking about his life darting between the food world and the rest of LA, as well as his desire to “Keyser Soze” Jamie Oliver.
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