The festivities kick off tomorrow with a Texas food and wine dinner at the Whole Foods Culinary Center at 6th and Lamar. From 6:30 until 8:30, guest chef Todd Duplechan, of Trio at the Four Seasons, will teach students to make an heirloom tomato salad, ravioli filled with local butternut squash and Pure Luck goat [...]
Falling temperatures mean radishes are coming back to Texas markets en force, and we say, “Welcome back!” The cool-season crucifer – a near relative of cabbage, turnips, and mustard – is known for its swollen red root. The color of that root, though, varies by variety from white to deep purple. You’re most likely to [...]
The last time we ate at Hyde Park Bar & Grill in Austin, we were psyched to see a “Central Texas raised Kobe (Wagyu)” burger on the menu. ["Kobe" is the place in Japan known for this particular type of beef; "Wagyu" is the breed of cow used in Kobe, but also raised in America.] [...]
If you accomplish nothing else on this lovely Sunday, get yourself a copy of today’s New York Times. [Of course, you can also read it online.] It may not be the most Texan of publications, but reading this issue is a very locavore thing to do: Today’s New York Times Magazine is all about food. [...]
Three-month rotational flavors starting in October are Hot Fudge Sundae, Peppermint, and White Chocolate Almond. Plus, look for three new flavors: Snickerdoodle, Chocolate Extreme, and Centennial Cupcake, which honors the 4-H organization’s 100th year in Texas by donating proceeds to that educational group. That’s locavore goodness and charity all in one tasty scoop!
Also called Mexican limes, these green citrus fruits stand apart from their standard, or Persian, lime counterparts in their diminutive size: Typically they don’t reach a girth of more than 2 inches. They’re harvested at this time of year in Texas by producers who protect them from winter freezes, which they can’t tolerate. To those [...]
Have you met Olivia? She’s a new restaurant in south Austin who, according to language on her own menu, “is committed to supporting … local farmers, ranchers, foragers and artisans.” There’s been loca-buzz about Olivia in every review I’ve read, so I was eager to meet her.
So before ordering when I ate there last month, [...]
That means even more opportunities than usual to taste Texas wines for yourself. Not interested? You’ve already heard that Texas wines aren’t any good? Take a chance and try a few different ones. Then come back here and let us know which ones you like – and don’t.
Visit this website to get the full list [...]
Mushrooms, you soon discover, are wild things in every way, beings pursuing their own agenda quite apart from ours. Which is why “hunting” rather than harvesting, is the mycophile’s preferred term of art.
–Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma
If you’re even reading this blog, there’s a good chance your interest piques at least slightly at the thought [...]
