August/ September

Bern's Steakhouse, that Tamapa, Florida-based rococo palace of aged meat and marble statuary, is the subject of my latest Garden & Gun column. Get your Fork in the Road here. 

July 13

Big Green Eggs and their kin in the NYT. In this edition of United Tastes, I exmplore the culture of kamado smokers, ovoid ceramic beasts, born in Japan as rice cookers and remade in the U.S. as backyard bbq pits.

June 5

A report from Memphis in the June-July Garden & Gun, in which Andy Ticer and Mike Hudman seduce the city with various salted and fried pig parts. 

May 25

In Los Angeles, rapping about tamales and deprtation with Chingo Bling in the NYT, as part of my

United Tastes series.