Chef Profiles - Daily Food - The Austin Chronicle

It started with 20 chefs, but now there is one brisket to rule them all. Hometown hero Aaron Franklin can now add another feather to his cap: James Beard Foundation Award winner.

7:51PM Mon. May 4, 2015, Brandon Watson Read More | Comment »

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Elaine Martin

When Elaine Martin, Dorsey Barger, and James Lance opened a restaurant on Manor Road in 1988, they had no grand designs about becoming the anchor tenant of a busy restaurant row or pioneering the local garden-to-table movement. They did both. 25 years later, Elaine Martin and Eastside Cafe are still there.

3:30PM Wed. Feb. 18, 2015, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Sharon Watkins

Sharon Watkins did not set out to own a restaurant. In the Eighties, she parlayed her theater arts background into a successful Austin boutique ad agency, Wilson and Wilson. The company was one of the first to represent local restaurants, helping them establish their brands by creating memorable, award-winning marketing campaigns.

10:00AM Fri. Dec. 5, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

TODAY'S EVENTS

KUTX & Mueller Rock the Park w/ Geto Gala, Lucas Miller

Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater

Selena Birthday Week Celebration at French Legation Museum

Keira Nova, She23, Ayo Tamz, Maurvice, Envy N, Caleb Lemons at Flamingo Cantina

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

Erica Waksmunski's Got a Brand New Bag

Earlier this year, Erica Waksmunski walked away from a high profile pastry chef position in order to start the Red Star Southern food trailer, serving Southern comfort food in the parking lot of the Grackle. She's keeping the trailer, but now she's having her cake and making it too.

10:15AM Mon. Oct. 27, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Foo Swasdee

In recent years, we've become accustomed to women with culinary degrees being in charge Austin restaurant kitchens, but since chef Foo Swasdee opened Satay in 1987, she has possibly been the only person with a doctorate in food science owning and running a local restaurant.

1:45PM Wed. Oct. 15, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Gabrielle Hamilton Cooks in Austin

Gabrielle Hamilton, chef/owner of the popular Prune restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side, will present dinner Friday night on the rooftop deck of the Contemporary Austin Downtown. The dinner is hosted by Tribeza magazine as part of the 11th annual Austin Style Week and benefits Creative Action.

3:30PM Wed. Sep. 24, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Dot Hewitt

By the time readers finally turned me on to the soul-satisfying home-style cooking at Dot's Place in the late Nineties, proprietor Dorothy Nell "Dot" Hewitt had already been in business nearly 20 years. Her place was well off the beaten path and far from any limelight, but it was a definite Austin success story nonetheless.

2:00PM Fri. Sep. 19, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Dynamic Duo Cooking at El Naranjo

Although the high-profile Fiestas Patrias dinners and cooking classes scheduled over the coming week sold out quickly, visiting chef Tomás Dominguez will spend the coming week in the kitchen at El Naranjo alongside chef and co-owner Iliana de la Vega, enhancing her menu with dishes from Veracruz.

3:30PM Thu. Sep. 18, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Chef Genealogy

Making the rounds of restaurant openings the past couple of years, it became apparent that many of the new generation of young chefs could trace their local work history through the kitchens of four important local mentors. This previous generation of chefs helped train and encourage many of the players responsible for our current restaurant boom.

9:00AM Tue. Sep. 16, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

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