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Author and critic Robb Walsh: What’s in Your Fridge Friday?
Walsh was the restaurant critic at the Austin Chronicle in the early 1990s, which is when he started the still-popular Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. He’s written for the culinary big boys — Gourmet, Saveur, Cooking Light — and voiced pieces for NPR. The Houston Press snagged him in 2000, where he still reviews restaurants and contributes to the Eating Our Words blog.
He’s also been known to cook a mean rabbit for visiting food bloggers.
Research for his most recent book took him all over the world, picking and shucking nearly every kind of oyster known to man. Instead of getting sick of them, he stocked his fridge with varieties including Apalachicolas, Totten Inlet Virginicas and Gulf giants from Espirtu Santo Bay.
Walsh will tell tales of his oyster-hunting adventures at 3 p.m. Sunday at BookPeople .
What three things are always in your (indoor) fridge? (winter) Saint Arnold’s beer, Boar’s Head natural casing all-beef frankfurters, and lots of mustard.
What’s your favorite way to eat oysters? On the half shell with a squeeze of lemon with a gin martini — three olives and a twist of lemon peel.
What’s your go-to late night snack? (winter) Liverwurst and Ritz crackers
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By Kay
January 21, 2009 1:26 PM | Link to this
Robb & I share the same winter guilty pleasure snack. Who’d have known? LOL And also a love of oysters. MMmmmm….Appalachicolas!