You’re either an okra person or you’re not. Mark Wootton is an okra guy. As a kid in Highland Park, Wootton grew okra in the back yard of the family home on Shenandoah Street. “And I had an okra stand instead of a lemonade stand,” he says. “Sold it on…
According to some studies, sales of spicy products have septupled over the past two decades. Chicken chains are paying heed, releasing spicier versions of their already spicy recipes. In August, Church’s rolled out its Spicier Spicy Chicken, a chicken marinated for 12 hours in a heat-packed brine and then battered…
Spending Hatch chile season in Santa Fe means eating plenty of green chile cheeseburgers, a topic of intense debate among New Mexican food lovers. Who makes the best version? Is green chile really a better burger condiment than red chile? And should there be anything on a burger besides green…
A Keller resident who’s entered an online essay contest sponsored by Anthony Bourdain is hoping he understands good writing as well as he gets good cooking. Otto Borisch has collected more than 1,000 votes for his essay on “What does it mean to cook well?,” making his entry the 16th…
Dallas’ little sister, Fort Worth is showing up Big D. First the city hosted the contestants of The Great Food Truck Race. Now, adding insult to injury, Tacoheads, a food trailer trading in — you guessed it — tacos, is opening tonight in Cowtown. To celebrate the event, Sarah Castillo,…
Yesterday, we brought you a short profile of chef Richard Chamberlain, owner of Chamberlain’s Steak and Chop House and Chamberlain’s Fish Market Grill. Today, the chef answers a few questions for us, and tomorrow he demonstrates how to cook one of his most popular dishes. City of Ate: What is…
First of all, TV fans, let me just throw you a cyber fist bump and wish you all a happy 9.02.10. Donna Martin graduates!But seriously, last night was the last set of “normal” challenges before the Final Four set off to cook their way through the finale. It was tense…
The official participant packet for the Association of Food Journalists’ annual conference in Santa Fe this week includes a list of restaurant suggestions to supplement the included meals from more than a dozen local eateries. All of them specialize in chiles and blue corn. That makes sense, since that’s what…
For cynics wondering whether the hype surrounding Hatch chiles is justified, here’s the Santa Fe School of Cooking’s culinary director’s take on the pepper: “I’m not saying they’re better, but they are to me,” Rocky Durham told members of the Association of Food Journalists at a meeting in Santa Fe…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
As someone who gets everywhere on two wheels, I was intrigued when Nova, the latest addition to Oak Cliff’s vibrant restaurant line-up, proclaimed itself a “bike-friendly gastropub.” There’s an endless list of entities unfriendly to cyclists: elected officials who can’t find money for bike lanes, planners who hook towns together…
12 Burgers is named after its signature burger, which comes with 12 toppings: bacon, cheese, avocado, sauteed onions, mushrooms, bell peppers, pickles, jalapeños, lettuce, tomato, Thousand Island dressing and mustard. Personally, I think that’s a pretty dumb name because I wouldn’t count Thousand Island and mustard as toppings. (I’d make…
Great news for fans of Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons Brewing Company this week, as the brewery is just about ready to open up to the public again for its raucously fun brewery tours. The news comes more than six months after February’s snowstorm collapsed the brewery roof, temporarily halting…
Our vintage game show point man, Adam Nedeff of gameshowutopia.net, unearthed a few early culinary celebs in his archives. Here, three American food icons at their most confounding: 1. What’s My Line? (1969) Rudolph Stanish was so well-known when he appeared on What’s My Line? that two judges were forced…
Now in its seventh season, Top Chef is still breaking enough ground to have scored an Emmy this weekend in the “Outstanding Reality-Competition Program” category. (Then again, the award may not be a fair gauge of innovation: The Amazing Race has won it seven years in a row.) But a…
Reality TV just got a little sweeter. To celebrate the September 15 debut of Bravo’s Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Just Desserts, OpenTable.com is offering free dessert with meals purchased at more than 30 restaurants in Dallas and Fort Worth. Make your reservation through the online service at one of…
Each week City of Ate will give you the lowdown on a local happy hour in Quittin’ Time, with the details and why you should or shouldn’t take up the featured bar or restaurant on its drink specials.Where: The Elbow Room, 3010 Gaston Ave., 214-828-9488When: 3 p.m. to 8 p.m…
As a countdown to the Dallas Observer’s “Best of Dallas” 2010, City of Ate is serving up 100 of the favorite dishes we crave, savor and hope to scarf down again soon. These dishes are in no particular order. Some are little known, others celebrated. Some are pricey, others can…
Luckily for steak-loving Dallas diners, chef Richard Chamberlain wasn’t much interested in tilling the soil when he was a young man. Girls on the other hand — well, them he liked. That’s not exactly surprising for a 14-year-old boy — Chamberlain’s age when he took his first step on the…
Fruiti Pops, Inc., based in Santa Fe Springs, California, is voluntarily recalling its 4-oz Mamey Paletas frozen fruit bars due to possible contamination with Salmonella typhi, the cause of typhoid fever. If that seems familiar to you, it should be. Goya Foods recalled its frozen mamey pulp earlier this month…
We know it’s not the end of the world if we have to valet. It’s not as if the attendant’s going to go apeshit and take our car for a joyride. Things like that only happen in ’80s comedies starring Matthew Broderick, right? The truth is that plenty of valet…
Labor Day used to be a really big deal. Back when a minimum wage was considered radical and child labor was the norm, workers turned out in fearsome numbers to march for their rights. More than 10 thousand workers joined the first-ever Labor Day parade in New York in 1882,…
