Marrow on the side in Ysidro
A birria to stop you short of the border
Ian Anderson 4 p.m., Nov. 15
Tin Fork
Rib tips are beckoning
“I just do this for a hobby.”
What is going on up here? This is Chollas View-Mount Hope. Guess I’ve been looking for ribs in all the wrong places, heh heh. We’re talking Market Street in the 4200 area. Trundling east in ...
All I can say is, lavish!
I waddle out, a couple of pounds heavier.
I swear. Thought I knew Barrio Logan. I’m wandering down Beardsley to where it gets more industrial. Right where Newton Avenue crosses, by Perkins Elementary School, I spot a sandwich board. Huh. A kind of ...
Poke power
I need some of the pure protein tuna has. Not greasy cheeseburgers.
Are we running out of tuna? Standing here in Poke Etc, in the middle of National City’s Highland View Center, I’m starting to wonder. Little signs on the counter say they’re going to have to ...
A beautifully angry cauldron of tastes
“We are all Issan here.”
To understand a cuisine, you’ve got to look around. That is, look at the countryside of an area. Like Issan cooking. These people live in the not -so-fertile crescent of Thailand’s northeast. The land doesn’t ...
To beat hunger and heat in El Centro
Cathy brings my mollete, and boy, for $2.85, it’s a lot
‘Cher was born here,” says Sonny. “Right, Lawrence?” Lawrence lifts up his aristocratic, bloodhound-wrinkled face and nods. “Her dad was a truck driver.” We’re standing in the muggy heat of an El Centro Greyhound depot. ...
Mold gold
This is the best danged torta I can ever remember eating.
It’s black. It’s a fungus. It’s a disease. It’s delicious. I know because I’m sinking my fangs into a torta that’s drooling with it: huitlacoche. That’s a Nahuatl name meaning “sleeping excrescence.” It grows on ...
Haggis: bad, Nessy burgers: good
A nap and a Scottish piper wailing in the heather would go down well right now
"You can see forever!” says Mag. We’ve just got out of her car. Wind sifts up from the San Luis Rey river, snaking through the valley below. Interstate 15 swoops towards us like a gigantic ...
People look up to Syrian food
Competition among Middle East restaurants around here is intense.
People look up to Syrian food
Gluten-free duck
So next night, here I am again, staring across at their come-hither lights
Gluten-free duck
Sushi and tacos, making whoopee
“You could really fill yourself for eight bucks, no problem.”
Sushi and tacos, making whoopee
