My first exposure to the barbecued rib was delivered in the final forty seconds of every showing of The Flintstones that I watched as a kid. The closing sequence plays as follows: Having just watched a thirty-minute episode of his own life at the local drive-in, Fred Flintstone immediately pedals his granite rolling pin-mobile to [...]

While perusing Yelp’s page for M & M Soul Food, I stumbled upon the review that might render this entire entry unnecessary.

“M and M’s is the truth.” Since I was first introduced to this Los Angeles chain of soul food restaurants by my comrade Zakhar, I’ve held these words to be self-evident. For the [...]

As we once were approaching the door of Los Reyes for our Thursday night tortas, I mentioned to the man I know best as El Ultimo that I’d been having chest pains since morning.
“You think it might be my heart?” I asked.
Without a second’s thought, he shot me a glare of skepticism bordering shock and [...]