Rick Martínez’s Essential Mexican Recipes

When I was a teenager, my grandfather Agustín Flores Castruita would call me every Saturday morning to let me know exactly which church festivals he would be hitting up that day. These festivals, in East Austin, Texas, where he lived, were like circuit parties for the neighborhood’s older Mexicans and Mexican Americans. There were concerts,…

Winter Squash Every Which Way

One of the first dishes I learned to make when I moved to Los Angeles a few years ago was Minh Phan’s rice porridge with squash and brown butter. I’d fallen in love with it at her restaurant Porridge + Puffs, where she served the soft, comforting rice — somewhere between risotto and congee —…