SFA & The Global South

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 …

Serious SFA Eats

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 …

Katie Walsh: Texas Eats

Please excuse the sporadic posting this week–we are off to Oxford Mississippi for the SFA Symposium. By we, I mean me and my daughter Katie Walsh. You might have noticed …

Making of a Foodways Texas Short

The mission of Foodways Texas is to preserve, promote and celebrate the diverse food cultures of Texas. Ever since the non-profit started organizing in July, we have heard about unique …

The CIA's New Tex-Mex Campus

At the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) ribbon cutting ceremony in San Antonio on Saturday, the “ribbon” was a string of chiles. That’s because the San Antonio CIA is dedicated …

Texas Oyster Forecast

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, …