guns + butter pop-up pilgrimage is the story of a Detroit kid a semi-truck tried to kill. That same night, a Coney Island chef who may or may not be of this world called me to the kitchen. My quest to become a world-class chef takes me from three-star Jean-Georges to an underground biryani network in India. — I’m hunted by Violence — the vengeful spirit of my aunt's abuser. When I return home to find my car on fire and my childhood friends chained by Violence, I must face my adversary and answer him—not with a gun, but with a song.