Take Out the Heat

Sure, complaining about the heat only makes it worse. A long string of 100 degree days presents an unsolvable problem but it just so happens that there's one summer problem we can solve. What to do about dinner on a day when the ambient blast furnace is stuck in the triple digits and operating any appliance hotter than a microwave is a sure sign of madness? Where to go, what to buy, how to put a tasty meal on the table without working up a sweat?

"...the original store, mind you -- we love the cooking school, the music on the deck, the Grab n'..."

July 28, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

El Nopalito

It's All in the Latitude

"...where a cranky Virginia Daugherty served up exemplary downhome cooking and tart-tongued insults to a loyal and satisfied clientele...."

March 10, 2000 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

Northwest Restaurant Boom

"...restaurants. While sitting through five changes of the traffic light at Hwy360 and FM2222 earlier this summer, the wisdom..."

July 30, 1999 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Food-o-File

Crescent City Beignets

"...etc. The beignets here are the divine genuine article: light, puffy squares of dough, fried golden to order, capped..."

July 9, 1999 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...entire central Pennsylvania sky, a canvas permanently peppered with light. Once magnified, the web of constellations paralyzed me like..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

Tasty Wake-Up Call

The Range Restaurant

"...soups, as well as to a brute hand with cooking meat. A recommended Tortilla Soup ($4.95), for instance, was,..."

May 28, 1999 Food Feature by Ronna N. Welsh

The Lhasa Moon Tibetan Cookbook

"...there's even a recipe for making Barley Beer. The cooking instructions are clear, simple, and easy to follow, and..."

March 5, 1999 Food Feature

Food-O-File

"...produced cookbooks that are companion volumes to PBS television cooking programs. Herbalist Lucinda Hutson put out the second edition..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Oktobeers

"...brewmasters worldwide pay homage to Bavarian beer culture by cooking up celebration beers of their own. Here in Austin..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Food Feature

Day Trips

"...favorite aspect of his three-pronged meat company it is cooking the barbecue and working with the customers. Hired help..."

March 20, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Food-O-File

"...a career in the culinary arts. Individual, restaurant, and cooking school members were encouraged to stage tribute events on..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Tamaladas y Posadas

Mexican Christmas Traditions Alive and Well in Austin

"...arts organization La Peña celebrated La Posada with a candlelight procession from the Fairway Village Apartments to the Montopolis..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...wrote in his final report last year that traffic light synchronization may provide no air quality improvement because of..."

Dec. 20, 1996 News Feature

A Taste of Tuscany

Basil's Classic Italian Fare

"...Long vulgarized to please North American tastes, Italian cooking has recently gone haute. Many Parisian chefs now betray..."

July 26, 1996 Food Feature

Food-O-File

"...Christian Echterbille are currently in Austin and will be cooking at Cafe Armageddon, 2015 Manor Rd. (478-4857) on Saturday,..."

July 19, 1996 Food Column

Food-O-File

"...Christian Echterbille are currently in Austin and will be cooking at Cafe Armageddon, 2015 Manor Rd. (478-4857) on Saturday,..."

July 19, 1996 Food Column

day trips

"...off," Barbara Worthy says. "That's why we added the `light' plate to the menu." (Or is it so you..."

Oct. 27, 1995 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

No-Cost Travel

Cookbook Heaven II

"...tout Paris, and she spent many seasons visiting, eating, cooking, and writing in Provençe. These days, Schulman is married..."

July 7, 1995 Arts Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Austin's New Central Library

"...is a tiered seating area for lectures, readings, and cooking demonstrations...."

Oct. 26, 2017 Photo Gallery

A Guide to Austin Ramen

Local chefs look to give the dish the respect it deserves

"...eating classic Tokyo-style ramen, which is made from a light chicken and soy-based broth, he never forgot his first..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Food Feature by Veronica Meewes

Ranch Dressing

Jacoby's does country for city folks

"...location with a spectacular shaded outdoor porch, and rope lights that twinkle when the sun goes down. Inside, the..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Letters at 3am: The World That Calls Itself "the World"

We're capable of so much – and look what we've settled for

"..."out" young lesbians boarding a trolley, on fire with delight...."

Oct. 31, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura

Hops to It

The gospel of good beer is spreading

"...told, mostly still are – the provenance of Bud/Miller/Coors Light, the offerings have gotten more adventurous, and the gospel..."

April 6, 2012 Food Feature by Lee Nichols

Roy's

Seafood lovers will find comfort in dishes from Executive Chef Lawrence Kocurek and Roy's Classics

"...helm has been Austin native Lawrence Kocurek. His predecessors' cooking hadn't really excited me, but I had Kocurek's food..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Food Review by Wes Marshall

Entranced

Remembering one who fascinated us all: Karen Kuykendall, 1937-2007

"...sure of that. She might announce herself with a slightly too loud greeting to the first person she saw,..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Letters at 3AM

8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with

"...at the visitor's center. "There are many sorts of light," the film explains, "most of which we cannot see."..."

Aug. 3, 2007 Column by Michael Ventura

Cosmic Cafe

I was expecting (how can I put this diplomatically? I can't) completely uninspired 'old hippie'-style vegetarian food. Instead, I found a wonderful restaurant.

"...cuisine on Earth has marvelous vegetarian dishes, and vegetarian cooking does not have to be bland or strange or..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Food Review by Kate Thornberry

El Zuzal Restaurant

El Z. specializes in El Salvadoran cuisine, though they do have some standard Mexican dishes for those with no sense of adventure

"...– appropriate, since they feature seafood. All of the cooking is done by El Salvadorans, and it shows with..."

April 16, 2004 Food Review by Mick Vann

Will Travel for Food (and Awards)

Barcelona

"...of succulent slices of dark Iberico cured ham. Some light salt-cod fritters, sweet razor clams with tons of garlic..."

April 2, 2004 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Council Watch

Important Council actions in 1999 and what's on the agenda for 2000.

"...with this list of some of the high- (and low-)lights...."

Jan. 7, 2000 News Column by Jenny Staff Johnson

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