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.
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By Addie Broyles
| Friday, March 19, 2010, 03:33 PM
Sam Mason fits in well in a city like Austin. The New York chef and host of “Dinner with the Band” on the Independent Film Channel has been in Austin this week, catching a handful of South by Southwest shows and eating well at places like the Broken Spoke and Uchi, where his friend and fellow pastry chef Philip Speer works.
Mason knows the beauty of a chicken-fried steak, but he also has the culinary creativity to serve a drink like beet sangria at a happy hour at the IFC Crossroads House during SXSW on Thursday, which is where videographer Jenni Jones and I caught up with him. Mason and his crew just finished shooting the first complete season of “Dinner with the Band,” during which Mason cooks for a hip, indie band and they return the favor with a live show in his living room. (The season premieres on April 27 at 9:30 p.m. CST.)
But don’t worry, the former wd-50 pastry chef hasn’t swapped his kitchen knives for the lavalier mics and bright lights of television entirely. He says he has a few brick-and-mortar projects up his sleeve.
Too bad he isn’t looking at commercial real estate here. We’ve got a good band or two who wouldn’t mind trading tunes for a fancy meal.
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