Hailing from the Ozarks, Addie Broyles expanded her cooking (and eating) skills on the West Coast and Spain before settling in Austin, mainly for the aguas frescas at the taco stand down the street from her house where she, husband Ian and son Julian are now attempting to grow their own food in the backyard. They recently welcomed another baby boy and two chickens to the family.
Relishing food is about taking time to enjoy what has become the often hurried and mundane task of nourishing our bodies. Relish Austin is Addie's search for things that make her go "mmmm." High brow, low brow. Fast food, slow food. In Central Texas. On the Web. On the streets. In your garden and in your kids' lunch box. In your refrigerator and on your dinner table.
Relish Austin is also the name of Addie's print column that appears in the Austin American-Statesman a few times a month.
Unless otherwise noted, all photos are by Addie Broyles.
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By Addie Broyles
| Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 10:40 AM
Gary Vaynerchuk’s book signing and talk at Grape Vine Market yesterday was a great example of how inspiring and infectious his enthusiasm for both wine and people are. He talked for about an hour and 45 minutes about everything from his new book to how he’s capitalized on social networking tools to become one of the most influential people — not just wine bloggers — on the Web, period.
I’ll be writing a piece about our road trip to Houston for next week’s paper, but if you’ve got some video or a blog post to share about the event, put the link the comments below.
Tim Walker already has a blog post up over at Hoover’s that focuses on Gary’s take on marketing at yesterday’s event.
Gary’s going to be back in Houston in the next few days for the Food and Wine Week, where he’ll be mingling with Vayniacs and wine lovers from around the globe. (You should have seem him and winemaker extraordinaire Daniel Schuster last night at an event at America in the Woodlands. Talk about New World meets Old World.)
Fans are planning a Saturday night meetup with Gary at Cork Screw.
That was a great video, Dane. There are probably a handful of other clips of Gary’s Austin tasting out there on the Web by now, but Dane had this one up in a flash this morning.
As for Jersey grass, I’m pretty sure he’d tried it as part of his reverse palate training, but it’s probably not part of his daily food intake.
Wonder if Jersey grass tastes differently than Texas grass?
Lots of excellent reading here, thank you! I had been seeking on yahoo when I uncovered your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to a lot more from you.
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By Tracksuit CEO
June 4, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this
Nice video Dane! He blogged about it here: http://imdane.com/blog/?p=132
Is it true that Gary eats Jersey grass?
By Addie
June 4, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this
That was a great video, Dane. There are probably a handful of other clips of Gary’s Austin tasting out there on the Web by now, but Dane had this one up in a flash this morning.
As for Jersey grass, I’m pretty sure he’d tried it as part of his reverse palate training, but it’s probably not part of his daily food intake.
Wonder if Jersey grass tastes differently than Texas grass?
By Terry
June 13, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this
The easiest way to distinguish Jersey grass from Texas grass is by the old sniffy-sniff.
By kunde
May 10, 2011 9:00 AM | Link to this
Lots of excellent reading here, thank you! I had been seeking on yahoo when I uncovered your article, I’m going to add your feed to Google Reader, I look forward to a lot more from you.