Javier is a punk from the backyards of East LA who became obsessed with everything we put into our bodies and the rest of food culture as a teenager. He’s been professionally writing about food, music, and culture since he was 16 years old. He is the former restaurant scout for the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer award, Jonathan Gold, and also worked as the West Coast Editor/Staff Writer for Vice MUNCHIES. His work has been featured in over a dozen publications such as Food & Wine, Lucky Peach, Saveur, The WashingtonPost, and LA Times in addition to co-hosting a segment of the first L.A. episode on Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. At 29 years old, he published his first starred restaurant review for the (old) LA Weekly. He is currently the Associate Editor for L.A. Taco (a local news site), the Traveling Taco Researcher for a new documentary series on Netflix coming out next year, and is finishing up his first cookbook that will be published by Abrams Books (NY) in 2019.