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 Galveston Bay Oyster Seeding New flow standards are being considered for the Trinity and San Jacinto Rivers that could deprive Galveston Bay oysters of adequate freshwater. The public comment period on these changes to is open until December 20 with a public hearing scheduled for December 16. The draft item is titled “SB3/HB3 Environmental Flow Standards” Texas oysters need your help!  Fidel Castro Eating BBQ in Houston, 1959 (from The Tex-Mex Grill) Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, The Washington Post has named The Tex-Mex Grill, one of the Top Cookbooks of 2010. Listed under Ethnic/Regional, the book was described as: “Full of personality and great ideas; a must for carnivores.” Many [...]
The first Foodways Texas event in Austin will be held on Saturday, December, 11th, from 12-5pm at Momo’s Club downtown, 618 W. 6th Street (above Katz’s Deli). There will be live music, a screening of our first documentary film, and food provided by Hoover’s Cooking, Zandunga Bistro, Southside Market, Quality Seafood, and JR’s Corner BBQ. A short talk on the connections between Texas food and Texas music by music scholar, Jason Mellard is also planned. Tickets are $30. To become a member of Foodways Texas, go to foodwaystexas.com.  If you drop a frozen turkey into 350° cooking oil, it will explode. And if you don’t measure the oil carefully, even a properly thawed turkey will set your garage on fire. Ten years ago, some amazing videos of Cajun fried turkey infernos showed up online. Their popularity spawned a subgenre: simulations of [...]  Cajun Fried Turkey Getting the Injection Why do I get such a kick out of shooting up the bird? Is the injection of garlic butter and spices really necessary? Or is it just a lot of voodoo?  Head Chef Casey Gaido “In 2006, you wrote a review in the Houston Press titled “Fish on Its Laurels” that I read every week,” Casey told me when I met him. I was embarrassed. It was obviously a bad review, but I didn’t remember what I wrote. So I reread it when I got home. I faulted Gaido’s for being so inconsistent. On one visit I thought I had died and gone to Galatoire’s–and on the next my dinner guest remarked that the place felt like a “gone-to-seed country club.” read more Gaido's Regaining Its Glory »   The Pola Cheese booth is going to be my first stop at the Urban Harvest Farmer’s Market this morning. These guys have my tastes nailed–I get the cheeses that are dusted with chile powder or pimenton (smoked paprika). Talk about a local product, they were making cheese in a house in the Montrose–although I [...]
read more The Winged Bean Wonder Boy »   The Saigon Burger at Burger Guys in Houston The banh mi burger is a very tasty emerging trend. Most of the banh mi burgers I have heard about are created by American restaurants and burger joints rather than Vietnamese banh mi shops. Rub BBQ in NYC has one as a sometimes special and another place in Redhook Brooklyn offers them too. The Houston version I tried was pretty impressive. read more Creolized Burger and Fries: The Banh Mi Burger »
Next time you’re in San Antonio, stop by the Menger Hotel’s Colonial Dining room and have a dish of mango ice cream. The dessert has been on the menu there for over a hundred years. It has been enjoyed by several US Presidents including Teddy Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. There is an autographed photo of Clinton in the old Menger lobby eating a parfait glass full of the tropical treat. The Menger boasted the best fine dining restaurant in the state from the time the hotel opened in 1859. The early chefs were German and Croatian and their specialties were European pastries and wild game. The deer, wild turkeys and quail were hung from the cottonwood trees in the hotel’s courtyard in the days before refrigeration. read more 100 Years of Mango Ice Cream at the Menger »  |
  
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