Eddie Lin
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | Eddie Lin began his food blog Deep End Dining around fall 2004. A post was selected to be in the 2005 food anthology Best Food Writing. Eddie is the author of Lonely Planet’s Extreme Cuisine, a guidebook about exotic foods around the globe. His food exploits have been covered by NPR, PBS, Los Angeles Times, Food & Wine, USA Today, and others. Eddie was an on-air contributor and segment producer for KCRW's long-running Good Food and has appeared on Visiting with Huell Howser, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, Freakiest Foods, Eat St., KABC Eyewitness News's The Man Who Eats Everything, and CSI: NY. Eddie Lin was guest judge on Top Chef Masters, among other popular tv food competition shows, such as MasterChef. Eddie’s job as tasting judge had him traveling the country to vet hopeful cooking contestants for shows like MasterChef with Gordon Ramsay. He appeared on Knife Fight alongside Top Chef Ilan Hall. Eddie is a contributor to LA Taco and the LA Times, covering interesting food stories around LA. He’s also writing his food memoir titled All You Can Eat Hell, a requiem for a restaurant, about his family’s failed all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet in Houston, TX. |
| Interests | spreading the gospel of great grub! |
| Favorite Movies | into the wild, before sunrise, before sunset, when harry met sally, in the mood for love, eat drink man woman, joker, amelie, crimes and misdemeanors, hero, the last days of disco, last christmas, saturday night fever, love actually, about a boy, run lola run, rocky, fame, blade runner, blade runner 2049, the matrix, stand by me |
| Favorite Music | jazz, old school hip-hop, positive hip-hop, disco, ambient, classical, showtunes, opera, hawaiian, theme park, classic tv, motion picture scores |
| Favorite Books | a confederacy of dunces, kitchen confidential, wicked, counter intelligence, a cook's tour, angela's ashes, a drinking life, pyongyang, the prize winner of defiance ohio, freakonomics, interior chinatown, fresh off the boat |