Cookbook Cafe at Central Library Is Closed Forever

The city of Austin hopes to find a new vendor soon

"...read “Closed Until Further Notice” adorned the door of Cookbook Cafe at the Central Library in Downtown Austin. The..."

July 11, 2023 Food Post by Melanie Haupt

Counter Culture Is Closing and Rents Are Rising, Brunch Is Opening at Asti and Maie Day and Side Eye and Pretty Much Everywhere In Town, Gift Guides Are Clamoring For Your Hard-Earned Spondulics, and OMG What Is This Armadillo Rangoon?

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

"...How about some good news? Please? Look: Asti Trattoria..."

Dec. 7, 2022 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Sensual Kitchen: Julie Cohen Explores How Julia Child Changed Cuisine

RBG documentarian celebrates the chef in Julia

"...it, the situation was terrible. Delve into any 1950s cookbook, and if the shortening doesn't get you then the..."

Nov. 23, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Comic Book Cookbook Shows You How to Make Perfect Ramen

A step-by-step trip into the noodlicious and brothy world of ramen

"...One regularly annoying thing: Whenever someone writes a review that isn't negative, when it's even the slightest bit..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Food Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Cookbook Bar & Cafe

Downtown Central Library’s restaurant offers a mixed bag

"...Walking into Cookbook, the counter-service cafe located in the new Central Library,..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Virginia B. Wood's Cookbook Collection Will Live on at Cookbook Cafe

Home "On the Range" at the Central Library

"...also the official home for Wood's enormous collection of cookbooks. Her friends and fellow Chronicle food writers Claudia Alarcón..."

June 22, 2018 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Gay Place

1, 2, SXSW is coming for you

"...pick up a signed copy of Beekman 1802's newest cookbook. Sun., March 11, 3pm. TOMS Austin, 1401 S. Congress...."

March 9, 2018 Column by Sarah Marloff

Your Queer Guide to SXSW

Keeping things kweer in 2018

"...It’s subtle, hopeful, and heart wrenching. Look for my (p)review in our March 9 issue and bring tissues...."

March 2, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Ruby’s BBQ Set to Close

The beloved barbecue restaurant will shutter by the end of February

"...Mares suggests revisiting their first official review from the Chronicle in 1989 to get a feel..."

Jan. 31, 2018 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Review: Mattie's

Green Pastures lives at revitalized grande dame

"...exploratory spirit of Koock (her 1965 classic The Texas Cookbook contains a recipe for a curried chicken that was..."

July 7, 2017 Food Feature by Brandon Watson

Texas Book Festival 2016: The Full List

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

"...Heavyweights of fiction? Check. Besides the previously mentioned DeLillo,..."

Sept. 15, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Austin Filmmakers Make International Festival Waves

Watch out Chicago (and Montreal, and Edinburgh, and London)

"...the audience favorites at Fantastic Fest 2015 (read our review), and two SXSW fan and critic faves, Slash (directed..."

July 17, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Some for Keeping

I'm gifting these baking books to myself

"...learned it's necessary to find homes for the myriad cookbooks that come my way every year. Once they've been..."

Dec. 22, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Gift Guide: In Good Books

Cooking titles for everyone on the list

"...One of the perks of the job of any cookbook-loving food writer is access to review copies of new..."

Dec. 11, 2014 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

A Hip Girl Hops Into the Kitchen

DIY maven Kate Payne applies her prowess to cooking

"...Look for our review of The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen in..."

April 25, 2014 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Review: The Craft Beer Cookbook

Recipes that make it possible to indulge in craft beer for breakfast

"...recipes for the impending holiday cook-a-thon, Jacquelyn Dodd’s debut cookbook offers solutions...."

Nov. 18, 2013 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Cooking in Context

A conduit for civilization, culture, and technology

"...Mostly cookbooks, but with an occasional work of fiction or memoir,..."

Oct. 17, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

How Do You Define Soul Food?

Adrian Miller explores where Southern food ends and soul food begins

"...varied, distinguished from Southern food by economics, nothing more. Cookbook author and former cooking show host Vertamae Grosvenor defined..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Food Post by Toni Tipton-Martin

Cookbook Review: 'Bacon Nation'

Start your drooling engines

"...mind, I couldn't be swayed from absolutely devouring this cookbook...."

Sept. 18, 2013 Food Post by Derek Van Wagner

Salsa Town

Meet Austin's civic leaders in mouth burn

"...some great information for salsa aficionados. We've included a review of Festival co-founder Robb Walsh's new Hot Sauce Cookbook..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Food Feature

Cookbook Review: 'Treme - Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans'

Author Lolis Eric Elie presents New Orleans brunch from his new book

"...in for a treat. Not only is the companion cookbook to the series just out in print, but Treme..."

Aug. 22, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

Goat Revolution

Austin gets hip to the world's most consumed meat

"...milk, or cheese into your culinary repertoire, see our review of Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese by Bruce Weinstein and..."

June 28, 2013 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Cookbook Review: 'Goat: Meat, Milk, Cheese'

A funny, approachable primer to goat

"...It is not often that a cookbook comes around and instantly engages me to the degree..."

June 27, 2013 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Ruby's Juke Joint Americana Cookbook

This one's for "real Americana folks," not highbrow foodies

"...Musician and cookbook author Ruby Dee Philippa is a gal with sass..."

June 14, 2013 Books Feature by Gracie Salem

Passover Made Easy - Cookbook Review

Passover-friendly recipes way beyond matzo balls and brisket

"...to eat even after Passover is over. In their cookbook Passover Made Easy: Favorite Triple-Tested Recipes, the authors have..."

March 21, 2013 Food Post by Amy Kritzer

Review: Rachel's Irish Family Food

The recipes you'll need for St Patrick's Day

"...she has a large television following, and this new cookbook, Rachel's Irish Family Food (HarperCollins, $29.99, ppg. 256) is..."

March 16, 2013 Food Post by Kate Thornberry

Book Review: ‘Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook’

Over 100 crave-worthy recipes from Austin’s famous food trailers

"...often ingenious, handheld edibles. Tiffany Harelik’s ‘Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook, Austin edition, Volume 2’ (American Palate, 206 pp., $19.99)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Last-Minute Stocking Stuffers for Food Lovers

Unique gifts to please each discerning palate or distinctive passion

"...great gifts: Afield by Jesse Griffiths; The Salt Lick Cookbook by Scott Roberts and Jessica Dupuy; Trailer Food Diaries..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Book Review: 'Learn To Cook' by Hilah Johnson

Austin Internet star delivers a 'down and dirty guide to cooking'

"...sensation Hilah Johnson attempts to mend with her new cookbook. Focusing on individuals who simply never learned how to..."

Dec. 19, 2012 Food Post by Jessi Cape

Mrs. Santa's Book Bag

"...still using Gesine Bullock-Prado's Pie It Forward that I reviewed in the summer reading issue (June 1), and Baked..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

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