Daniel Hernandez

Daniel Hernandez is Food editor at the Los Angeles Times since 2022, leading to multiple awards for Food staff including a James Beard Award and a nomination. He previously covered culture for Entertainment and was honored with the Nell Minow Award for Cultural Criticism from the National Press Club for that work. In two other stints, he’s been a reporter in Metro and in the Mexico City bureau. He’s also contributed to Opinion. Hernandez has worked as a staff writer at LA Weekly; Mexico bureau chief and correspondent for Vice News; and reporter for Styles at the New York Times. In 2017, he led a relaunch of the local site L.A. Taco, eventually leading to the James Beard Emerging Voice Award in 2020. He has appeared as a contributor or host on a variety of major platforms, including NPR (“All Things Considered”), Netflix (“The Taco Chronicles”; “The Day I Met El Chapo”), HBO (“Vice News Tonight on HBO”), and Vice (“The Munchies Guide to Oaxaca”). A native of the San Diego-Tijuana border region, Hernandez studied English at UC Berkeley, where he served as editor of the Daily Californian. He is the author of a nonfiction book “Down & Delirious in Mexico City.”