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 Host Jim Dees and Dad on Thacker Mountain Radio Dad and I had a blast roadtripping to the SFA’s “Global South” symposium and hanging out with rowdy food lovers of all sorts this past weekend. He’s a frequent SFA speaker, but it was my first rodeo. I found it enriching, delicious and way too much fun.
The diverse docket of programming included dialogue on Cuba and the American South, the Mesoamerican-Afro hot tamale and Viet-Cajun crawfish in Cali. Dad’s speech was titled “Houston: The South’s New Creole City.” He did a fine job of extolling Houston’s food scene while downplaying the scenery. But he was upstaged by the appearance of another Houstonian: the Masa Messiah himself, Chingo Bling.
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Dad & I on the road to Oxford
On the Road to SFA, we stopped along the Houston to Oxford trail for bites of Cajun kolaches, hot-out-the-fryer cracklins, crawfish boudin, the best of NoLa-Sicilian and whatever else our bellies could hold. You can follow our foodsteps in a 9-part road diary series on [...]
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Ben Nelson and Tracy Woody took me and seafood dealer Jim Gossen out on Galveston Bay to check their oyster leases yesterday. Jeri’s Seafood, named after Ben’s wife Jeri Nelson, owns around 800 acres of oyster leases in Galveston Bay. Tracy told me the recent cold snap had dropped the water temperature in the bay considerably and that the oysters had already begun to fatten.
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 Barbecued chicken, goat cheese and arugula pizza
Did Cafe Moustache borrow this salad on a pizza idea from Marco Wiles’s Dolce Vita across the street? Granted, it’s not the newest idea under the sun–neither is the beef stroganoff, trout meuniere, or beet and goat cheese salad on the lunch menu. Cafe Moustache is [...]
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On Saturday I’ll be giving a talk titled “Wurst BBQ in Texas” at the Texas Dance Hall Symposium at the Round Top Festival Institute. I am planning on showing a BBQ history video and passing out some interesting examples of Czech and German BBQ sausage to keep the audience awake. I’ll be signing [...]
Out in Southern California, L.A. food critic Jonathan Gold makes fun of authentic Mexican chef Rick Bayless — read all about it in Gustavo Arellano’s food blog “Stick a Fork in It.” And don’t miss Bayless responding to Gold in the comment section. They have such inspiring culinary conversations out there.
This was [...]
The CIA San Antonio campus at the Pearl Brewery Complex on the north end of the Riverwalk is undergoing a major expansion at the moment. The new CIA building will celebrate its Grand Opening in October with an open house. CIA Antonio, officially became the Culinary Institute of America’s third campus in 2008. The school was founded to realize a dream – El Sueño – to elevate Latin American cuisines to their rightful place among the great cuisines of the world, and to expand diversity within the foodservice industry.
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Foodways Texas board member Melissa Guerra hosted a coffee to update San Antonio food writers, media and interested food lovers about the formation of the new organization and invite their involvement. The meeting was held Friday at 8:30 in the meeting room of the new Earl Abel’s restaurant at 1201 Old Austin Highway. [...]
The fried softshell crab and grits I had for lunch at Brennan’s of Houston the other day raises the bar in the seafood and grits competition. The softshell crab was extra crispy and very juicy, the stoneground grits were excellent and the pool of gravy surrounding the whole thing didn’t hurt any either. [...]
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