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HEADLINE HEAD What if there were no more stories to tell? C H L O E WA T L I N G T O N
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avier Cabral, a perplexingly skinny food writer, has yet to write his autobiographical piece about “what’s the proper word? … getting rejected.” He describes the year he fell backward into the position of editor in chief for the popular news site L.A. TACO — a site known both for its hyper-local investigative journalism and its hyper-local food writing. Javier started his writing career with free content on Blogspot, writing as the Teenage Glutster: “Food, punk, angst, hormones and a really, really fast metabolism” was the blog’s motto. At the time, L.A. TACO was a blog run by Alex Blazedale and Hadley Tomicki that covered the three most essential pieces of an L.A. night: weed, graffiti, and tacos. In this early 2010s period, the Los Angeles Review of Books was still just a Tumblr. 88
