From The New Yorker’s new profile on Javier Plascencia, The Missionary:

Plascencia said he’d arrived at 4 A.M., with twenty-one hundred shucked Kumiai oysters from Laguna Manuela in the back of his car. At the festival, he grilled them, and sprinkled them with short-rib chicharrones, lemongrass foam, and ponzu sauce: oyster asada. The food writer Jonathan Gold came back for seconds. “That made my day,” Plascencia said.

Plasciencia is doing a pop up at El Take It Easy on March 5.