You'll Live Longer With a Lunch Gang

Lessons from a Boca Raton Denny's and Mel Brooks

Even though my life has mostly been spent in Brooklyn and Chicago, I never fail to mention that I also have a bit of South Florida in my story. It’s my “I’m two-percent Navajo,” a way of trying to prove there’s a little bit of diversity in my background, that it’s not all Italian beef juice and pizza grease.

I spent my childhood going to mostly Miami an…