Chef Tim Byres of Smoke has a new cookbook out today. Smoke: New Firewood Cooking is a simple story about a boy, smoke and meat, highlighted with some beautiful photography by Jody Horton. In addition to recipes and cooking methods, there’s a section for the more industrious cooks, like how…
Saint Arnold Brewing Co., the oldest craft brewery in Texas, is releasing the next beer in its Icon series this Wednesday. Icon Green is an Amarillo hefeweizen made with two-row barley and Vienne and Cara-Munich malts. “This is a refreshing summer beer for Texas and Louisiana that has the base…
News has been buzzing the last couple of weeks about food that will slowly kill you. First it was red meat getting the flak, along with liver, but now eggs, the breakfast staple and vegetarian go-to for protein, are also to blame. All of this is coming from the April…
OK, this national food holiday thing is officially out of control. The Internet tells us that May has 10 different National Food Month options for you to choose from, actually including: National Asparagus Month National Barbecue Month National Salad Month National Salsa Month National Strawberry Month National Mediterranean Diet Month…
Frisco is an odd place for anything that isn’t a strip mall. All those strange brick buildings are meant to give it character, I suppose, but end up making the whole place look like the efforts of a pioneering architect who desires a standardized building, and has had southern European…
Budweiser has so many bad ideas. For instance, putting a Clydesdale’a handler alongside a parade route when children are milling about. Everyone knows a Clydesdale will make a run for it if it sees the handler who raised from a foal before selling it to a beer company. Horses slip…
It’s Monday, start of a new week. Time to bring home the bacon, climb ladders and all that good stuff. Thinking about it just makes us plot when and where we’ll be able to decompress. Here are a few new(ish) places to add to your regular rotation. Or if you…
If you’ve ever found yourself in the Dallas Arts District and in need of an immediate caffeine injection, we have good news for you. The AT&T Performing Arts Center has announced that Pearl Cup, the much-loved local coffee house, will be the official coffee vendor for the museum café in…
A proper salad can be so much more than just a salad. It can have layers, depth, a mix of distinguishing ingredients as unique and special as the creator itself — your soul in a bowl. Well, maybe that’s a stretch, but for a fast healthy lunch, a tailor-made salad…
Summer technically commences when the sun reaches the most northern point in the sky at noon. The Farmers’ Almanac suggests that day is June 21 this year. But, we prefer to use snow cone stands as our guide to the season, particularly Aunt Stelle’s Sno Cones in Oak Cliff. See…
I think this might be the best spring I have ever encountered. There have been a few cold snaps here and there, but I find them invigorating. And these sunny days that are mixed in here and there are amazing. It’s great weather for a vacation, which I intend to…
This Sunday local restaurants and musicians will team up to raise money to help West recover from last week’s deadly fatal fertilizer plant explosion. Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights, The O’s, Somebody’s Darling and Goodnight will perform, and Toadies front man Vaden Todd Lewis will play a brief set…
A quirky little restaurant opened in Shed 2 of Dallas Farmers Market about six weeks ago. Owner Luis Rotundo and his father, Luis Senior, call the restaurant The Right Choice Dallas and serve up rotisserie chickens laced with Venezuelan flavors, tiny arepitas and pita sandwiches. The marketing is a little…
It’s a tale filled with corporate greed, union strikes and cream filling. But no matter how much it may appear that things have gone over an edge into a fiery pit below, there is one thing that we can rest of assured of: The American snack industry will always rise…
The third location of Norma’s Cafe is a few steps closer to opening. The new Frisco location was set to open its doors in April, but things never seem to work that way around here. The restaurant is now expected to open closer to the end of May, though that…
You know how we talk about goals and dreams? Well, an opportunity has circled around that I think a few of you should consider. Yes, it’s a job. But it’s a job that: 1. allows you to exercise (that is, in fact, a bonus) 2. lets you party 3. pays…
There are two types of home cooks in this world: those who have trudged down the path to pizza perfection and those who have not. If you’re in the club, you intimately know the struggles for ever-higher oven temperatures and endless experimentation to determine the optimal placement of your pizza…
The announcement that Whataburger condiments would be available at H.E.B. stores next month was a welcomed one. For whatever reason the news item was one of our most popular posts this week. Seriously. See also: Whataburger Condiments Now Available at Grocery Stores People freaked out about Spicy Ketchup in seemingly…
Remember the kerfuffle with Dublin Dr Pepper and Dr Pepper Snapple? It’s a long story that started back in the ’70s when Dublin-based bottler W.P. Kolster refused to switch over to high-fructose corn syrup, a cheap product that replaced pure cane sugar extensively in the American food industry and is…
While everyone focuses on whatever this library thing is at SMU, I’d like to take a brief moment to discuss hot dogs. Free hot dogs, actually, which are yours for the taking at Wild About Harry’s, the almost-too-casual restaurant marked by a 6-foot carnival wiener giving a thumbs up to…
In this week’s issue of Burning Questions, in which we quiz a chef about cookbooks, worst meals, food shames and whatever else comes to mind, we hear from Marc Cassel, the man behind 20 Feet Seafood Joint. What are a few of your favorite cookbooks? The Internet has made the…
In a boisterous dining room on a Thursday night at Urbano Café, a sea of crystal marks a large table of diners working their way through a variety of wines, while across the room a woman celebrates her 40th with the girls. The celebrants have even more wine, and every…
