The Walsh Family Road Trip Tradition
While I have always advised my brilliant and talented daughter, Katie Walsh, to find something better to do, I have been secretly delighted at her progress as a food writer. …
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Texas Eats Recipe Video: Sweet Potato Cobbler
Mama Sugar’s Sweet Potato Cobbler from Keeley Steenson on Vimeo. While she was working on the Mama Sugar film for Foodways Texas, filmmaker Keeley Steenson put together this short “recipe …
Gustavo Arellano: “Tex-Mex is Dying”
Gustavo Arellano’s oft-stated opinion that “Tex-Mex is dying,” has been forwarded to me repeatedly by Tex-Mex enthusiasts. They think I should challenge him to a debate–or a duel. Few people …
Savoring Mutt City: Fried Chicken, Bethlehem Style
In his Oxford American article, “Savoring Mutt City,” Southern Foodways Alliance Director John T. Edge called Houston the “the South’s twenty-first century Creole capitol…the most vital place to eat in …
Homemade Cayenne & Tabasco Sauce
Jim Sherman, my gardening guru, told me to meet him at a raised bed garden this morning. He was trying to clean the place up to get it ready to …
b-10: 2nd Generation Houston Vietnamese
The Vietnamese steak and eggs at b-10 are a new take on the classic bo luc lac, the Vietnamese dish better known as “rock n’ roll beef.” At b-10, they …
Indonesian Deviled Eggs
This hybrid of Indonesian telor balado and Deep South church picnic deviled eggs will rock your cocktail party. The egg yolk filling is seasoned with Indonesian sambal, Squid brand fish …
TXChef5: Mutt City Cuisine: Chris Shepherd
It’s hard to figure out where Texas cooking is headed right now. There are a lot of different trends going on and they have little to do with each other. …
Texas Eats: The Menger’s Mango Ice Cream
Writing Texas Eats was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about Texas food history in the 1800s, a time that some food historians think was the heyday of …
DIY Tabasco, Sriracha and Texas Pete: Making Homemade Pepper Sauces
What do you think about xanthum gum? After months of experiments with fermentation and pepper processing, I am making Louisiana and Sriracha style pepper sauces at home that taste better …