Olive & Well
Apparently feral pigs like olives. I am walking through narrow rows of arbequina olive trees on the outskirts of ... Read More »
Fun Begins with Roux
The “Down the Bayou Cooking” banner strung above Zachary Taylor’s booth in an oak motte in the hills above Medina ... Read More »
A Juicy Tale
No matter what task he’s engaged in—slicing limes, shaking cocktails, restocking the three-tiered tequila ... Read More »
Cowboy Cloy
If there were a rite of passage into the Texan tribe, surely it would be the 72-ounce steak challenge at The ... Read More »
Cue it Up!
When out-of-town guests visit me in Tyler, and their mouths water for barbecue, my choice, hands down, is ... Read More »
Kiko Guerra’s Cabrito al Pastor Recipe
Kiko Guerra has been honing his cabrito-cooking technique for about 20 years. He learned his method as a boy, when he would watch the cowboys who barbecued cabrito on his family’s ranch. Kiko says it takes observation and practice to learn how to cook cabrito correctly and to avoid under- or over-cooking the meat, especially given the inconsistencies of cooking with mesquite coals, the weather, and varying sizes of kid goats. In South Texas, one common place to get kid goats is at flea markets, where farmers will sell them either live or slaughtered. Read More »
On the Right Track
A plot of land 15 feet from an active stretch of railroad tracks is not generally considered a prime location upon ... Read More »
Fearing’s at the Ritz
Dean Fearing strides across the dining room from his kitchen inside The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dallas, delivering ... Read More »
Hoot Sweet!
It’s a few minutes before happy hour on a Wednesday afternoon, and I’m playing a game with myself at The Owl, a ... Read More »
Dining on the Dock of the Bay
Inside Dirty Al’s at Pelican Station in Port Isabel, I have a front-row seat for watching the Laguna Madre: A ... Read More »
Dog Days of Summer
I’m at the “coolest honky tonk on the Texas Riviera,” so claims the large, plywood sign outside. Having passed by ... Read More »
Southeastern Spice
Watching an alligator glide through a murky bog, I’d have sworn I was in Louisiana. But no, this gator—one of a ... Read More »
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