That stands for Spiceman's Absolutely Unusual Culinary Extravaganza. And it takes place Saturday at FM 1410. Tom "Spiceman" Spicer plans to have cooking classes and demos all day starting at 10:30 a.m. This will include wild mushroom paella cooked by...
Australian winemaker Chris Ringland is in town, selling new releases and pouring samples. It's one of those dizzying, "if-it's-6 p.m.-we-must-be-at-Central-Market" kinds of promotional tours. Ringland makes wine in a partnership arrangement with Dan Phillips of Grateful Palate, an importer of...
It's time for an open house. Come on by and sample holiday specialty items and regular menu fare at Eat the World in its new location from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday. I wrote about the cafe/prepared foods store...
Like many chefs, Kent Rathbun (Abacus, Jasper's, Blue Plate) is offering Thanksgiving dinner fixin's to go, starting with hickory-roasted turkey with green chile-red-eye gravy. He's also making a leg of lamb, chunky garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with candied pecans,...
This is totally unscientific, but these might be taken as signs that the economy is bouncing back in these parts: Last year, at Stephan Pyles' 9th annual Celebrity Chef Dinner (where he raises funds for the culinary scholarship that bears...
If you're New York-bound around Dec. 10, you can dine with Scott Gottlich, chef-co-owner of Bijoux and The Second Floor, whose been invited to cook at the James Beard House that evening. He'll be joined by his wife, Gina, co-owner...
Some of us were invited guests at the Rosewood Mansion Restaurant last night, to preview some of new chef Bruno Davaillon's menu additions. It was a great opportunity to sample items like his Maine lobster salad perched on avocado-tomato confit,...
White Rock Local Market teams up with Mockingbird Station to provide an evening farmers market from 5 to 9 tonight. That means lots of specialty food vendors, maybe a farmer or two, some artists and more. Mockingbird Station will give...
Food Roots is doing another one of their all-day, all-inclusive locavore/foraging tours on Nov. 21. This one's called "Cheese, Burgers and Viognier." This tour was wildly popular last year. You depart Mockingbird Station at 9 a.m. and make your way...
Top Chef, the TV show, is looking for more chefs. This time around, the show is casting for season No. 7 and for its new pastry-based competition: Top Chef: Just Desserts. The open casting call will be held at Abacus,...
Author and Texas State University-San Marcos prof James McWilliams didn't actually start a food fight at the "Ethics of Food: A Symposium" last week at the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. But he got plenty of intelligent push-back from...
It's not too late to sign up for Celebration Restaurant's Dinner with Dialogue tomorrow night. The topic is sustainable agriculture and the speakers are Pamela Walker, author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas, and Mike and Debbie Sams...
I made it to the inaugural Four Seasons Market this morning at Firewheel, and I think it's going to be a terrific success. Even as I write, I'm savoring a slice of fragrant, moist whole wheat bread baked by Rosey...
I don't know about you, but I plan to make it out to Firewheel Town Center Saturday for the inaugural Four Seasons Market. The list of local vendors as of today (which includes more than food purveyors) numbers 48, including...
Gary and Nancy Krabill, owners of Flavors From Afar, describe the difference between dry-aging and wet-aging beef in their latest blog post here, as well as how they dry-age their own beef. I haven't checked with the food safety police,...
The only good thing about the incident Robb Walsh reports in his current Houston Press dining review is this: It's significant because it happens so rarely. You have dig deep, all the way over into the jump. But there it...
The Dallas Farmers Market Friends hosts its 15th Annual Hoedown Thursday in the Food & Fiber Pavilion at Fair Park. It's a fund-raiser for the group, which does things like bring us the popular chefs cooking classes. Lots of vendors...
Tune in to Krys Boyd and "Think" at noon 1 p.m. on KERA-FM (90.1) to hear an interview with Pim Techamuanvivit, who's just written a new book called The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy. Pim writes the...
Bruce Buschel, who writes The Start-Up Chronicle blog in the New York Times, is building a seafood restaurant, and he wrote a terrific piece in The Times today called "One Hundred Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part I)." It's...
To Nancy Nichols over at D magazine and Scott at Dallasfood.org: mea culpa, mea culpa. Both have pointed out that Tillman's Roadhouse, which I wrote about in my Table Talk column on the revival of authentic chicken-fried steak, didn't exist...
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