Texas Icon: Bud Royer
Considering his industry’s egomaniacal tendencies and the achievement of ushering any restaurant past its 25th anniversary, Bud Royer’s humility drives remarkable to the doorstep of ridiculous. Still, when you’ve been known for much of your adult life as Bud the Pie Man or, these days, as the Padre of Pies, it all comes down to [...]
A Big Taste of Houston’s Strip House
Rank may have its privileges, but as I’ve learned more than once over the years, so does radio. Last night, as part of a taping for my show Delicious Mischief, we didn’t just get to spend some quality time with executive chef Bill Zucosky and learn about the company with only a handful of locations [...]
The 26th Annual Sandestin Wine Festival
There’s nothing quite like a wine festival at the beach. And while I’ve heard of one or two others across the country, for the past two decades I’ve been a zealot for the Sandestin Wine Festival – held at the golf and beach resort of that name on the lovely piece of northwest Florida known as [...]
June 2: Katsuya and Bonnell’s on DM
NOW HEARD IN THREE GREAT TEXAS CITIES! AUSTIN Saturdays 10-11 a.m., Talk 1370 A Presentation of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Chef Jon Bonnell of Fort Worth has made a wildly successful career of cooking what he calls Fine Texas Cuisine – which, in everyday practice, translates as “fine dining that’s not too [...]
Smoked Sausage Queso
SMOKED SAUSAGE QUESO There are few things more Texan than the unrelenting pursuit of molten cheese, and there are few things that taste better in said cheese than smoked sausage. For those who think queso can be made only behind the swinging doors in Tex-Mex restaurants, here’s a straightforward process than almost any home cook [...]
Tastings
A Big Taste of Houston’s Strip House
Rank may have its privileges, but as I’ve learned more than once over the years, so does radio. Last night, as part of a taping for my show Delicious Mischief, we didn’t just get to spend some quality time with executive chef Bill Zucosky and learn about the company with only a handful of locations [...]
Radio Shows
June 2: Katsuya and Bonnell’s on DM
NOW HEARD IN THREE GREAT TEXAS CITIES! AUSTIN Saturdays 10-11 a.m., Talk 1370 A Presentation of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Chef Jon Bonnell of Fort Worth has made a wildly successful career of cooking what he calls Fine Texas Cuisine – which, in everyday practice, translates as “fine dining that’s not too [...]
May 26: Blue Plate and Blu on DM
NOW HEARD IN THREE GREAT TEXAS CITIES! AUSTIN Saturdays 10-11 a.m., Talk 1370 A Presentation of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Chef Kent Rathbun has done a lot of great things, most of them (including Abacus in Dallas and Jasper’s in several cities) since arriving in Texas. Yet lovers of comforting homestyle cooking may [...]
May 19: Artisans and Twisted Root on DM
NOW HEARD IN THREE GREAT TEXAS CITIES! AUSTIN Saturdays 10-11 a.m., Talk 1370 A Presentation of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods There are artists, we’re told, and then there are artisans. A new restaurant in Houston, created by not one but two exemplary French chefs, demonstrates just how much of the former there is [...]
May 12: Olive & June and Oregon Pinot on DM
NOW HEARD IN THREE GREAT TEXAS CITIES! AUSTIN Saturdays 10-11 a.m., Talk 1370 A Presentation of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Here in Texas, Shawn Cirkiel has risen to be one of the culinary superstars, first on the strength of his Austin gastro-pub parkside (on bar-happy 6th Street, no less) and then with his [...]
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