Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. After six years of driving around Chicago, the food truck and caterer Aztec Dave’s is finally settling down into a permanent restaurant in Humboldt Park.

Chef Scott Koshnoodi of New York celebrates Cinco de Mayo by reaching deep into Aztec culinary tradition. He then recreates the indigenous food of Mesoamerica with magic he learned at the forefront of ...