Yosuke Kitazawa

Yosuke Kitazawa is a Los Angeles-based writer and producer, whose work includes writings on music, history and the Japanese American experience. He has produced numerous archival music projects, including the Grammy-nominated Japan Archival Series for Light In The Attic Records. He recently launched his own record label, Temporal Drift. He is the former Site Editor of KCET Departures.

Los Angeles can claim a unique place in the culinary world in which a sense of deep social history can be felt from the sampling of its food culture. We take a look at how food played an important role in shaping Chinatown.