Category Archives: Food, glorious food

Just when you’re about to lose faith in the world, along comes a story about the world’s biggest Chee-to. It’s believed to be the largest Chee-to in the world. The cheesy glob of fried cornmeal that Navy Petty Officer Mike … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I always knew that Houston had poor air quality. I just never knew that barbecue was a contributing factor: Analyzing particles in Houston’s air, environmental engineer Matt Fraser of Rice University detected fatty acids among the millions of tiny organic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Found the following link in the comments to this entry about the closing of San Antonio landmark Little Hipps, from reader Mags. Here’s the relevant bit: Have you missed Little Hipps? You may want to load up for a drive … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last night we had a few friends over for a chocolate and wine tasing party. It went very well and a good time was had by all. We had been invited to a chocolate-tasting party at someone else’s house some … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From Brad DeLong: Ann Marie, staring at a line on a menu offering kung pao chicken pizza: “I think we can safely say that fusion cuisine has gone too far.” I think it’s the combination of hoisin sauce, peanuts, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Will bananas go extinct? Maybe, say Noted Scientists: It is one of the world’s favorite fruits, but the banana hasn’t had sex in years and its days may be are numbered. Without scientific help the sterile, seedless fruit could disappear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Campbell’s is making changes to its line of condensed soups in an effort to halt a slow decline in sales. The alphabet soup, for example, now has 40 percent more letters, and the vegetable chunks are crisper. Doug Conant, who … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Argh. As if I didn’t have enough to worry about, now I have to worry about whether fish farms are a threat to the environment or not. From the Northwest to New England, salmon farming’s critics contend the operations are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tiffany subscribes to Cook’s Illustrated, a fascinating magazine even for a non-chef like me. One part chef school, one part science lab, one part Consumer Reports, the magazine is all about finding the best way to do something by trial-and-error … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today’s Chron has this NYT wire story about the history of turducken, the chicken-in-a-duck-in-a-turkey confabulation that Paul Prudhomme claims to have invented. It’s a pretty good overview, with some history of stuffing one type of food into another, and they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Scott Chaffin shares some Thanksgiving memories of his grandmother. Check it out. Continue reading →

I am now going to resume living my normal life… Mac points to this story, which claims that you can teach children to like yucky foods such as broccoli if you keep making them try it. In her speech about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Awhile back I wrote about how the Kaldi Cafe was encountering resistance from a nearby church in its efforts to get a private members-only liquor license. Today I discovered that Stephanie, the manager of the Kaldi, had left a comment … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It was the final weekend of the Hatch Chile Festival at Central Market, which we discovered as we pulled into the parking lot this evening. The place was packed, but it was worth it because they were giving away lots … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The greater Houston Heights area, known primarily for its Axis of Liberal Bloggers, is also one of Houston’s oldest neighborhoods. It was once an independent city, but like many such places was annexed by Houston in 1918. At the time, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mac points to this article about McDonald’s in Hawaii testing a breakfast meal that contains Spam. I sent this link to the RoundTable mailing list, and was promptly informed that this sort of regional adaptaion is quite common for McDonald’s. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So apparently that Swedish study which claimed that many starchy foods, including things like bread, contain carcinogens was maybe a tad bit overstated. Perhaps the fact that the scientists announced their findings at a press conference before publishing them in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of those MasterCard commercials where they list the price of a bunch of things, followed by something that’s “priceless”. This one had the theme of a party weekend in New Orleans. One item was “Crawdaddy dinner for two, $63”. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wendy’s International has bought a 45% interest in Houston restaurant chain Cafe Express. Cafe Express is a “fast-casual” restaurant. Watch that phrase, I think you’ll be hearing it again. Cafe Express is Wendy’s first investment in the fast-casual restaurant business. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Got this off a mailing list I’m on: Heinz launches chocolate french fries Beginning in May, H.J. Heinz Co. will ship a new line of Ore-Ida frozen potato products called Funky Fries featuring five new shapes, colors and flavors, all … Continue reading → Continue reading →