Best thing I ate: okra from a mesquite grill

I don’t know how much time we have before okra season ends. Tomorrow? Next week? Or maybe it ended a few minutes ago. But it was still in full swing a few days ago when I popped into Maro Wood Grill in Laguna Beach. The okra is the fist thing I spotted when I walked into the restaurant, and I knew immediately what I was going to order with my steak. Like just about everything at Maro, okra is grilled over a raging mesquite fire. It takes only a few seconds to cook. They’re tossed wit