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The Los Angeles Times has a substantial food section, with lots of food news, articles and recipes. There’s even a nice listing of Farmers Markets, although they tend to be found in the LA Basin and don’t extend all the way over here to God’s Country.
Anyways, last week a recipe they published [...] Read more »

CNN.com recently announced the Quest for the Best Barbeque. They’re a little late off the mark here, that Quest started long before Ulysses found out his favorite ribs joint had been burned flat at Troy, took a wrong turn and ten years later found himself in Ithaca. I’ve been to that part of New York, [...] Read more »

Photo from “Cooking Up a Storm”
Ken Hom is one of the most prolific cookbook writers you never heard of (I bet). He’s been pumping out books on Chinese, Thai and other Asian cuisines for more than 25 years now, and he’s been featured on television cooking shows.
He even did “East Meets West” style cooking and [...] Read more »

Hanna Raskin of Slashfood recently published an article about Nashville Hot Chicken, which is apparently all the rage these days. I’d call it a fad, but apparently it’s been 40+ years in the making. Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack was first, but lately others have jumped into the fray: Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack, Zingerman’s Roadhouse and [...] Read more »

World geography was one of the fun subjects in grade school, learning about other places and countries. I fancy I did quite well in that class, and the neat things I learned there drove my interest in travel and world cultures (not to mention food).
Ask somebody to point out Nepal on a globe, however, and [...] Read more »

Our family loves pork, especially chops. I’m always on the lookout for new recipes and flavor combos to make pork “interesting.” Okay, interesting isn’t the tiebreaker; they’ll eat chops almost any way you can fix them, and they have some old favorites that never lose their interest.
Still, there’s nothing wrong with having a couple hundred [...] Read more »

I’ve been on a quest for many years now, to find the best bowl of pho in all of Austin. I am very serious about this sort of quest (it involves food, after all!), and so I’ve tromped about and tasted hundreds of bowls of soup in at least sixty restaurants in the five-county area. [...] Read more »

It’s Memorial Day weekend, the official start of summer; a time for reflection and remembrance. Also, a time for food! So stop by those roadside stands and get some vittles, then fire up those grills…
If you’re not sure about grilling, check out this article on how to master your grill. Get prepared so you don’t [...] Read more »