Picture a mass of pork—marinated in a combination of dried chiles, achiote, spices and pineapple—cooking slowly before a gas flame, all on a vertical rotisserie set-up called a trompo (a “spinning top”). Picture a man with a large knife shaving thin strips of meat off that … [Read more...]
SAN DIEGO CITYBEAT FOOD ISSUE: Best-kept-secret ethnic eateries
The types of places featured on Guy Fieri’s Food Network show, Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, are generally not the restaurants I want to frequent. As I’ve observed in the past, “What makes [the show] work is the sense it highlights examples of a mythical ‘authentic American … [Read more...]