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Daniel Hernandez is Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. From 2020-21, he covered culture in Southern California and received the 2022 Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism from the National Press Club for that work. Hernandez is a former Latin America correspondent and editor based in Mexico City, where among other things he reported from inside El Chapo’s escape tunnel for Vice News and on Mexico’s arts and culinary scenes. He is also the former editor of L.A. Taco, which won a James Beard Foundation award in 2020.
Brandon Ly is a senior art director for the Food section at the Los Angeles Times. He started his career at DoorDash and led design teams at the innovation firm Ideo in Shanghai and San Francisco. Ly is a graduate of Stanford University’s product design program and founder of the Black Bean Grocery.