{"id":2378,"date":"2014-08-22T07:18:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2014-08-22T07:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T14:18:37","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e51-just-mexican-food-with-javier-cabral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E51: &#8220;Just&#8221; Mexican Food with Javier Cabral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2379\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cabral.jpg\" alt=\"cabral\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cabral.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/cabral-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Highland Park with Javier Cabral, the &#8220;food, booze, and punk rock&#8221; writer formerly known as The Teenage Glutster, and currently known as <a href=\"http:\/\/theglutster.com\">The Glutster<\/a>. They discuss his mission to change the official punk rock food of Los Angeles from the Oki-dog to the taco; the reasons for the taco&#8217;s current surge of general popularity; the reputation Mexican food has, even among the otherwise culinarily aware, as &#8220;just Mexican food&#8221;; the humbling his Mexican-food expertise received at the hands of his girlfriend; the singular form of &#8220;tamales&#8221;; what the bean-and-cheese burrito stands for in Los Angeles Mexican cuisine; his Korean food outing with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2343\">Matthew Kang<\/a>; how punk rock got him exploring Los Angeles first, and how looking for punk show listings exposed him to the food writing of Jonathan Gold; what kind of music develops in the backyards of east Los Angeles; the pots of food his mom made for the attendees at his free 21st birthday punk show; how much he enjoyed comped meals (and drinks) on La Cienega as a young, broke food writer, and why he swore off them; why the eastside and westside continually accuse one another of having no food; the cultural overlap he&#8217;s found between food and punk rock in the most logical city for those two to come together; his long-form\u00a0<em>Saveur\u00a0<\/em>piece &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveur.com\/article\/Travels\/Mexico-Feeds-Me\">Mexico Feeds Me<\/a>&#8220;, which took him back to his family&#8217;s home state of Zacatecas (and which finally got his parents understanding his job); his love of street food, and his refusal to write about it for fear of getting its purveyors shut down; how both street food and punk rock always come back, no matter who tries to stamp them out; the burden of listicle-writing; and the etymology of the word &#8220;Glutster&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E51_Javier_Cabral.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Highland Park with Javier Cabral, the &#8220;food, booze, and punk rock&#8221; writer formerly known as The Teenage Glutster, and currently known as The Glutster. 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