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By Chile Doctor, November 8th, 2011, at 9:45 pm
It’s on the Web, it must be true. (And I don’t have time to “correct” these yahoos anyway, what with the writing and all.) Bites on Today just published a post by Alex Vallis of Food & Wine detailing where to get the best fried chicken in various outlets across the States. Check out [...]
By Chile Doctor, October 10th, 2011, at 10:00 am
This entry is part of a series, Austin Scene»
Addis Ababa is 8,000 miles away, and yet I can get a taste of Ethiopian culture without traveling more than a mile from my house. That’s about how far it is to Taste of Ethiopia, a small bit of east Africa right in my own [...]
By Chile Doctor, July 21st, 2011, at 7:00 am
This entry is part of a series, Austin Scene»
I enjoy good Indian food. Like many Americans who appreciate this great ethnic cuisine, I only had experience with the food here in the States. Authenticity is tough to judge without visiting the motherland, of course, and I have been fortunate to go “over there” [...]
By Chile Doctor, July 14th, 2011, at 8:00 pm
This entry is part of a series, F4F 2011»
What is a croquette, anyway? According to the standard of truth these days, a croquette is
… a small fried food roll containing usually as main ingredients mash potatoes, and/or minced meat (veal, beef, chicken, or turkey), shellfish, fish, vegetables, and soaked white bread, egg, onion, [...]
By Chile Doctor, June 17th, 2011, at 10:11 am
This entry is part of a series, Follies 2011»
Hospital food has a reputation as bland, unappetizing, or just plain bad. Efforts are under way in lots of medical institutions to change that perception, but it’s still a fact that many people dread going to the hospital because of the food. You’d think we [...]
By Chile Doctor, May 4th, 2011, at 6:45 am
My father-in-law recently had a birthday. To help him drown his sorrows celebrate, I made him some of Alton Brown’s world-famous Firecrackers. They didn’t last long, as expected. He never told me if they cured his depression made his day, but the way they disappeared…
Since I was messing up the kitchen anyway, I went [...]
By Chile Doctor, December 1st, 2010, at 6:00 am
This entry is part of a series, New Orleans Scene»
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never lie down with a woman who has more troubles than you. And never, ever eat at a place called Mom’s.
Anybody who studies life extensively will be able to cite these principles and more. They’re universal, [...]
By Chile Doctor, September 26th, 2009, at 5:00 am
It’s been downright cold around here the past few days (although warming up today). Shoot, it was down in the high fifties a couple days ago, with rain. Yes, rain! Our two Goldens (Sonia and Whiskey) didn’t quite know what to make of it. Sonia wanted to stay on the porch, and Whiskey kept [...]
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