Charbroiled Oysters at Drago's
While I was in New Orleans for the Louisiana Oyster Producers meeting, I joined Dr. John Supan on the annual oyster-eating tour he calls his “entourage.” We started with the …
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More Serious Eats in Texas
New York food writer Ed Levine was in Houston over the last few days researching a new book that’s being written by the whole staff at his famous food blog …
Friday Frozen Marg
Happy hour starts at noon on Fridays and I am already thinking of the frozen margaritas at Spanish Village on Almeda. How do they make those things so slushy? The …
Eating Seriously in Texas
Ed Levine, the founder of the James Beard-nominated food blog Serious Eats, is on an eating tour of Texas this week. Yesterday, I picked him up at the airport and …
Marketing Gulf Oysters by Place Names
The Totten Inlet Virginica on the left comes from Washington State. It is marketed exclusively by Taylor Shellfish under strict quality controls and sells at oyster bars for around three …
Leibman's Bunnies
Leibman’s on Memorial between Kirkwood and Dairy-Ashford has Houston’s best chocolate bunny selection–if you’re in the market. You can find bunnies from Godiva and other fancy chocolate-makers as well as …
The Wizard of Oysters
Dr. John Supan, head of oyster research at LSU, is a visionary who is leading the Louisiana oyster industry out of the 19th century and into a brave new world …
How Many Crawfish Can You Eat?
Nick’s Sports Bar on Wilcrest near Briar Forest is doing an all-u-can-eat crawfish special today. I ran into their crawfish supplier in the parking lot unloading sacks of mudbugs. He …
Organic Riot Squad
When I got home from a week on the road, I found my organic garden had gone wild. The lettuce was higher than the tomatoes–I had to cut down a …