Daniel Hernandez is Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. He is a two-time veteran of the Los Angeles Times, starting as a reporter in Metro and later in the Mexico City bureau. He’s also contributed to Opinion and Food. Hernandez has worked as a reporter for the Styles section of the New York Times; as editor of L.A. Taco; producer and correspondent for VICE News; editor of VICE Mexico; and as a staff writer at LA Weekly. He has appeared as a guest or contributor on a variety of national and local radio, television and streaming programs, including on NPR, Netflix and HBO. A multigenerational native of the San Diego-Tijuana border region, Hernandez holds a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Berkeley, where he served as editor of the Daily Californian. He is the author of a nonfiction book, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City.”
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