On the morning of June 11, Federal Express dropped a large package on my doormat. It consisted of two wholesale boxes of Big Dipper Ice Cream Cones, bonded, sealed and shipped from Memphis less than twenty four hours prior.
The name on the return address was Matt Allen, the man I’ve been proud to call my […]

The perfect bowl of grits is a lot like a bowl of melted butter with stuff inside it. That stuff is grits.

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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 […]

In the past two decades, Williamsburg has built a conflicted reputation: With the onset of gentrification, what had been a patchwork of ethnic enclaves was infiltrated by a downwardly-mobile vanguard of artists and hangers-on. Renovations were made, storefronts opened, rent prices began to climb, and a new dynamic began to take hold in this gritty […]