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Gulf Oyster Farming

These Point aux Pins oysters were among the best Gulf oysters I’ve eaten lately. They were grown from hatchery spat in racks off the bottom of Mobile Bay, and like …

Texas Oyster Season Opens

My first Texas oysters of the season came from “south of Corpus Christi” according to the waiter at Denis’ Seafood on I-10 in Houston. I assume he meant Corpus Christi …

Alamo City Pie Social

If you’re in the San Antonio area on Saturday, November 6th, stop by the Foodways Texas membership drive event at the Pearl Brewery Farmers’ Market and become a member. You …

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 …