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I made this green sauce on the weekend. Great flavor, although of course my spicy food loving husband wants me to double the serranos next time. Delicious! Thanks for sharing, Torchy’s.
If not for the recession the JW would have already been there. These trailers have other options but we lost Las Manitas several years ago, which is really sad. We do need more hotels in support of the things we generally consider good about Austin, ACL, SXSW, etc. Also, EdS, the hotel will employ even more people and the highly skilled people who hand you tacos will find other work. Sandra, please stop telling people to shut up.
Sandra, why would tell me twice to shut up? I immediately shut up after your first comment - and then I see the exact email again. I’m so upset I’m off to the hill country and tear (?) down some trees. I truly don’t have any alternatiive for growth & demand, but that still doesn’t mean I’m happy seeing the good folks at these trailers possibly out of jobs due to more hotel rooms.
^^do you have an alternative for growth and demand? Perhaps we can tear down all the trees in the hill country and expand like a ****** explosion. shut up.
Might as well get used to it. Austin is For Sale. Having moved from the bay area some years ago I watched the exact same thing happen. Our leaders do a wonderful job selling us on all the new jobs these new high rises, hotels, will bring, At the end of the day - we just become another mid/large city with just a bunch a concrete buildings. By the time it gets real ugly, these same leaders are enjoying the good life out by Lake Travis. Hang on!
For what it’s worth… I grew up on a farm in SW Missouri. My grandma and grandpa both grew up on farms and they always called it “shuckin’ “. And we did a lot of shuckin’.
That’s great. He’s a humble person and he’s very dedicated to cooking great foods.
First of all- I will go back next year- I had been looking forward to this festival for months! -I enjoyed many things about the festival- but for me it was definitely a splurge- $500 for two tickets- In Austin TX- the whole VIP vs. Weekender pass just seems wrong! Why not sign up for events you’d like to attend and be guarantee a seat if you sign up and are granted a spot. Why not be able to sign up for the evening events even if you can’t spend $850 per pop- I felt like I spent all day Saturday feeling disappointed, hot, not getting into sessions I was excited about and resented the VIP’s just marching on in- Take away the separateness and let people sign up for what they want to go to. I agree with others- more food! I did enjoy hearing the chefs I heard! Gail Simmons and Michelle Bernstein, but did have to wait in line for 50 minutes and barely got into the tent. It was just plain wrong that anyone had to sit in the hot sun on bleachers.— Maybe they should do it earlier in April or inside the convention center.
As much as I’m into food/wine and with all due respect to the festival’s paid attendees (who have every right to spend their time and money however they choose), I have no clue why a couple would spend $500+ on events like this instead of spending the same money on a dinner at Uchi, a great bottle of Burgundy, or airfare to New York City - where you can dine comfortably at the real restaurants whose food was demonstrated but not served.
An afternoon of cooking shows on PBS is free and equally informative unless your thing is just being in the same room (or, under the same oversized tent) as a celebrity chef.
Way to dusty on Sat., not enough seats for the events, open the food tents to bring in a breeze, should not have volunteers walking around tasting as it is already to full, more than half our group left and did not come back on Sat, or Sunday, went to the NY FN festival and it was so much better, the fact food not passed at cooking events is terrible, the lines to wait were 45 minutes to get a seat!!, you left VIP seats open even after the event started; this is a shame and very rude to the people who actully paid 250.00 per ticket, you people don’t understand that everyone in Austin is a VIP!! I suggest you offer a discount to people next year who bought tickts this year. Needs a lot of work!!!
I think basically, anything with a “VIP” option needs to be canned. It’s anti-American, and it’s particularly anti-Austin. I remember when I moved here from Boston in 2000, I kinda bemoaned the lack of vibrant neighborhoods, walkability and varied gourmet and ethnic cuisine, but thought what made the town, besides the music, was the seeming complete lack of concern about “who someone was” - no class pretentions, no pulling rank, no valet parking, no bs.
While I’m glad the food has improved since then, the rest of it is just sad.
Worth every penny if you got the badge for free.
It is clear that us weekenders subsidized the VIPs. No way could the 2 VIP only events be run solely on the tickets of VIPs even at 850 a pop. I Many of those were comped, talent, industry, or press. My wife and I paid 500 dollars (250 each) to prop up these events for the VIPs. The grand tasting was poor. If you want to call it a wine and snack festival, go ahead. But it was not a FOOD and wine festival. Yeah, yeah. I know. Food and wine magazine was a sponsor. So you have to. Now, kudos to all the volunteers and vendors in the tent. They worked so hard. But at 1k per stall + food and opportunity cost I don’t think they will see return on investment or prestige. I feel almost as bad for them as I do for all of us lowly weekenders. This event has potential. But it was poorly executed for weekenders. Those in the VIP bubble likely had a very different experience. We won’t be paying 500 dollars next year, that’s for sure. C3 will have to subsidize with someone else’s money.
Worth every penny.
Enough with the niceties. Charging $250 for this was a criminal activity. My 9 friends and I wasted $2,500 on the worst couple of hours of our lives. I am demanding a refund from the organizer.
There are options at different price points with a local focus. Please join us for the Sunday Affair with the Austin Wine and Music Festival May 27th. $25.00 online at AustinWineandMusicFestival.com
There are options at different price points with a local focus. Please join us! www.austinwineandmusicfestival.com/2012/a-sunday-affair.htm
Was it worth $250 ($500 for two of us)? No. Everyone’s insightful observation reflect what we experienced: event shut outs, long lines, too little (good) food, too much time between sessions, too crowded, etc. The option for daily tickets would have been good. They should have anticipated that some sessions would be more popular than others. Perhaps the organizers will make videos of the sessions available for free online. It is ironic that Andrew Zimmern said in his Sunday’s talk tha “Eating well in America has sadly become a class issue.” Apparently, so is attending a food / wine festival. Since it is their first year, hte organizers can learn from this experience to improve on future events. My take-aways: I got lots of exercise from walking, vitamin D from the sunshine, and a pretty cool Stella Artois chalice. We will not be paying to go next year. Instead, maybe Bob would invite us to his festival.
I did not attend the event and neither did anyone I know who used to attend the Hill Country Food and Wine festival. In protest to the C3 bunch’s destruction of the Hill Country Wine and Food festival we had our own festival in Austin and raised money for two local charities. Granted it was only about 150 people (by invitation) but there were no lines, we had plenty of wine and food and we had live music. We only asked people to donate $20. It was a great time.
I did not attend the event an neither did anyone I know who used to attend the Hill Country Food and Wine festival. In protest to the C3 bunch’s destruction of the Hill Country Wine and Food festival we had our own festival in Austin and raised money for two local charities. Granted it was only about 150 people (by invitation) but there were no lines, we had plenty of wine and food and we had live music. We only asked people to donate $20. It was a great time.
