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BOOKSFood books to add to your summer reading listSince we’re talking about books from Michael Pollan and Michael Fracasso this week, I thought I’d throw out a few more recommendations while we’re at it.First up is Jessica Soffer’s first novel, “Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24) the ...
NEW PRODUCTSAustin-based NadaMoo! adds chocolate almond chip, sweet cherry limeCoconut milk ice cream has come a long way since Austinite Amy Ramm started NadaMoo! in 2004 to give her sister, whose nutritionist recommended she avoid dairy to help with her allergies, a taste of one of her favorite foods. The ...
COCKTAILS Making (or buying) better maraschino cherries Did you see that Buzzfeed blog post about maraschino cherries that made the rounds last week? It showed the chemically altered path from tree to bottle that most of those artificially dyed cherries make from tree to bottle, and even though they are ...
NEW PRODUCTS Look for Whataburger, Boomerang’s Pies in local stores Now you don’t have to swing by Whataburger to get your spicy ketchup fix. The Texas-based fast-food chain has recently released a trio of condiments available for sale at H-E-Bs across the state, including the spicy version of its regular ...
NEW PRODUCTS Austinites sell kits to help you grow your own mushrooms Growing a vegetable garden is one thing, but what about mushrooms? In the past few years, I’ve had several grow-your-own mushroom kits cross my desk, but even with what I thought was careful attention to watering and growing ...
BARBECUE Bourdain’s favorite blogger-turned-author to speak about Texas barbecue By now, you’ve likely heard about Daniel Vaughn’s recent departure from a job as an architect in Dallas to become Texas Monthly’s barbecue editor, a new and much-publicized position where he’ll help executive editor Pat Sharpe assemble the magazine’s influential Top ...
AWARDSOnline magazine Dark Rye wins James Beard Award for best group blogDark Rye, the online magazine that Whole Foods Market launched about a year ago, won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Group Food Blog at an awards ceremony Friday night in New York City.The magazine, spearheaded by Vadan ...
COOKBOOKSBig ideas, even bigger flavors in ‘Baking Out Loud’ May is a big month for Hedy Goldsmith. The Miami pastry chef will find out next week whether she has won a James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef, an award for which she was a finalist last year. (Austin chef ...
FUNDRAISERS Citywide bake sale, barbecue fundraisers slated for West residents The food community was quick to respond after last week’s explosion in West. Within a few days, several fundraisers had already been set up, including a barbecue fundraiser with Man Up Texas BBQ (manuptexasbbq.blogspot.com) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...
Despite having some of the tightest, trickiest wine laws in the country, Texas is now on the list of states to which Amazon.com can ship wine. Amazon Wine (amazon.com/wine) launched in November, allowing customers in about a dozen states to buy wine through its site, but last week, the online ...
ASK ADDIE I wanted you let you know about a most unusual healthy enchilada. The new Monument Restaurant overlooking the San Gabriel River in Georgetown serves the best sweet potato and swiss chard enchilada with a walnut cream sauce. It is really something unique, and I think they might share ...
FREDERICKSBURGHerb farm family returns to roots with new storeBill Varney has been in the herb business for more than 20 years.In 1985, the former Houston landscape nursery buyer set up an apothecary shop called Varney’s Chemist Laden, which eventually grew, evolved and expanded to the four-acre Fredericksburg Herb Farm, which ...
BUSINESSSlow Money Austin hosting spring pitchfest next weekThe television show “Shark Tank” has brought the process of how entrepreneurs pitch to potential investors into a very high-profile spotlight, but a local nonprofit has its own version, with nicer investors and fewer suits, taking place next week.Slow Money Austin, the local ...
FOOD MATTERSWith PBS show, book, Pati Jinich makes regional Mexican cuisine accessible for American cooksPati Jinich didn’t grow up to be a chef, although she comes from a family of accomplished cooks. She dedicated her life to politics until seven years ago when she decided she would celebrate and demystify ...
SEAFOOD Study finds seafood mislabeling widespread throughout U.S., including Austin In a report released last week by Oceana, an international advocacy group that works to protect the world’s oceans, almost half of the seafood tested at 43 grocery stores and restaurants in Austin and Houston was mislabeled. The Texas samples ...
LOCAL COMPANY Cocktail-inspired jams are just the start for local baker Jenny Crossland used to work as a baker by day and a bartender by night, but when she moved from Dallas to Austin last year, she decided to focus her energy on her company, BOLO Patisserie. But instead of ...
LOCAL COMPANY Peanut brittle company almost 40 years in the making Lorilee Dodson has been selling peanut brittle, candied nuts and other confections since 1975, but it wasn’t until recently that she started to embrace the idea that candymaking was the right career path. In fact, she didn’t even know ...
COOKBOOKS Martha goes meatless for newest book Behind the Martha Stewart empire are dozens of chefs and kitchen staff who create and test recipes for the many outlets within the Martha brand, and this month, they have released a new book, “Meatless: More than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian ...
COOKING CLASSES Cooking without a stove or in a small space? No problem for ‘Kitchenability’ author Central Market has a slew of notable cooking classes coming up, including one with bestselling baking author Peter Reinhart, who will tackle gluten-free and sugar-free baking on Jan. 23 to promote his newest book, ...
COOKBOOKS Fischer & Wieser share a taste of Fredericksburg history, recipes in new book Did you know that one of the country’s largest gourmet food companies started as a roadside fruit stand? It’s a tale that Mark Wieser has told countless times. His parents planted a peach orchard near Fredericksburg ...
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