Aldous Pimentel-Rourke has written on food, regional disputes, and the smaller institutions for more than thirty-five years. His work has appeared in The Journal of Regional Foodways, The Provincial Record, and The Quarterly Ledger of Domestic Affairs, where he served as Correspondent-at-Large for eleven years without ever being assigned a desk. He has outlived two of the publications that employed him and holds no opinion on the third.
He considers himself a journalist. The Southwest Institute for Culinary Studies has repeatedly declined to characterize him.
He keeps a comal that has never been washed.
