Alamar’s Nelson German Was Inspired by UFOs for This Crab Cake Pupusa

“Unidenitified Dominican Object,” is what Nelson German jokingly called a pupusa he created for a drive-in movie-themed challenge he undertook as a contestant on Season 18 of Top Chef. The Dominican-American chef/owner of Oakland’s alamar Kitchen & Bar had to devise a sci-fi-inspired dish that could be delivered on trays to judges as they sat in their cars. “I thought of something shaped like a UFO,...