Dining

Longtime North Texas Chain El Chico Serves Warm Memories

Longtime North Texas Chain El Chico Serves Warm Memories

It’s now accepted wisdom within the state: The words “hot plate!” roared by a server is something of a culinary ... Read More »

Recipe: Chorizo Cheese Dip

Recipe: Chorizo Cheese Dip

Cooking time: 20 minutes Ingredients 12 oz. Chorizo de San Manuel chorizo 1 pound lean ground beef 2 ... Read More »

Chorizo de San Manuel Remains a True Taste of the Rio Grande Valley

Chorizo de San Manuel Remains a True Taste of the Rio Grande Valley

Odds are, if you’ve scattered chorizo across a breakfast taco or indulged in gooey strands of choriqueso at a ... Read More »

Inside Valentine Texas Bar Is a West Texas Fairy Tale

Inside Valentine Texas Bar Is a West Texas Fairy Tale

It’s easy to miss Valentine Texas Bar. The building on State Highway 90 looks just like any of the other ... Read More »

The BAPS Mandir Temple Outside Houston Is an Architectural Wonder

The BAPS Mandir Temple Outside Houston Is an Architectural Wonder

What appears to be a white marble palace in a faraway land is in fact one of the state’s grandiose Hindu ... Read More »

The South Texas-Inspired Pizzas of Chef Janet Zapata

The South Texas-Inspired Pizzas of Chef Janet Zapata

As she observed the pizzaiolos of the now-defunct Laredo Pizza Factory toss dough and maneuver peels in and out of ... Read More »

The Folklore Surrounding the Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie

The Folklore Surrounding the Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie

On Christmas mornings, once the flurry of opening presents dies down, my mom always brings out the cookie tray. ... Read More »

Make Room for the Tamale Burger This Holiday Season

Make Room for the Tamale Burger This Holiday Season

Enjoying tamales is a food tradition that dates all the way back to pre-Colombian, Mesoamerican civilizations. It ... Read More »

San Antonio’s Delicious Tamales Lives Up to Its Name

San Antonio’s Delicious Tamales Lives Up to Its Name

It was 2006, and I was the new gringo on the block. I’d recently married a San Antonio girl—“Puro Southside,” as ... Read More »

Czech Out Tanglefoot Brewing in Temple

Czech Out Tanglefoot Brewing in Temple

From the stylized retro logo to the traditional Czech-style beers, Tanglefoot Czech Lager Brewery is Andy ... Read More »

Spice Up the Holidays with Alternative Cranberry Sauces From Texas Makers

Spice Up the Holidays with Alternative Cranberry Sauces From Texas Makers

Nearly every region of the United States has some kind of native berry: huckleberries in the Northwest, ... Read More »

What the Recent Drought Means for Texas Pecans This Holiday Season—and Beyond

What the Recent Drought Means for Texas Pecans This Holiday Season—and Beyond

Dust flies up from the wheels of Mark Walls' UTV on a hot mid-September morning as he drives through the 300 ... Read More »

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