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Fancy Feast: It’s Not Just for Felines, Anymore

So, ah, Fancy Feast, the well-known cat food brand from Purina, has released Petite Feast. It’s a cookbook for humans, “inspired by the Petites cat food line of elevated flavor options and the small plate trend,” that will “allow cat owners to take part in the dining experience with their cats.”

3:35PM Wed. Apr. 21, 2021, Wayne Alan Brenner Read More | Comment »

Fernando Saralegui's Best Eats Havana

Fernando Saralegui wants you to try Cuban food—preferably in Cuba. “The food of Cuba is the food of the world,” says the Havana-born, Austin-based, New York transplant who has worked in kitchens from coast to coast.

4:35PM Tue. Feb. 18, 2020, Barbara Purcell Read More | Comment »

Some for Keeping

I've long since learned it's necessary to find homes for the myriad cookbooks that come my way every year. Once they've been considered for review, it's either that or find a bigger house.

2:30PM Mon. Dec. 22, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

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Sweet Pill, Zeta, Equipment

Parish

Friends Trivia
at Waterloo Ice House

Concert in the Dark: Full Moon edition w/ Will Taylor & Ryan Murphy (the Beatles tribute) at ATX Unplugged

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Gift Guide: Local Flavor

Used to be that local cookbooks were little more than a few typewritten pages held together with plastic binding and bookended with the stray observations of women named Viola and Ima Jean. We've come a long way.

2:20PM Mon. Dec. 8, 2014, Brandon Watson and Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Brooklyn's Star Bakers in Austin

Passionate self-taught bakers Erin Patinkin and Agatha Kulaga met in a food-focused Brooklyn book club in 2009 and immediately recognized each other as kindred spirits. They launched Ovenly as a wholesale business in 2010 and grew it into a wildly popular bakery in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood by 2012.

11:00AM Tue. Dec. 2, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Texas Book Festival: Fresh Cookbooks

The cooking tent at this weekend's Texas Book Festival is offering up one of the most enticing menus in recent years. The bill of fare includes appearances by a nationally known author, an international culinary star, and several homegrown Texas food experts.

10:30AM Fri. Oct. 24, 2014, Virginia B. Wood and Mick Vann Read More | Comment »

Chef Francis Mallmann Brings Fire to Austin

Internationally renowned Argentine chef and live-fire cooking guru Francis Mallmann brings his outdoor cooking fire pits to Austin again this week, celebrating Central Market's 20th Anniversary at a sold-out party on Thursday night and promoting a new cookbook in the bargain.

1:00PM Wed. Sep. 24, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Grocery Store Heaven

Like any debutante with a long, respectable Texas pedigree and family branches in all the state's major cities, Central Market celebrates its birthday with two weeks of events starting on Sept. 10 and culminating in a festive gala outside the flagship store on Sept. 25.

3:30PM Thu. Sep. 4, 2014, Virginia B. Wood Read More | Comment »

Chefs Get 'Away From the Kitchen' and Share Their Passion

Never has our culture been so enamored with the romantic notions of a chef's life inside, and away from, the kitchen. Our favorites have gained celebrity status, and we hunger for tidbits – the glory as well as the grit and grime – behind the scenes of the imagined idyllic lives we so envy.

11:30AM Tue. Jun. 17, 2014, Maggie Perkins Read More | Comment »

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