Entries tagged with 'Texas'
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What's inside deep-fried butter balls besides butterfat? Something funky that possesses little boys to break loose and shake it. The Texas State Fair's deep-fried butter (what can't you throw into a deep fryer?) inspires this boy to hunch over and get his boogie on. Are there some sort of deep-fried butter gods controlling his every move? Sure looks like he's under a spell, not to mention the happiest kid ever. The video, after the jump....
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How many drinks have you tried on Anvil’s list? [Photographs: Paul Clarke and Robyn Lee] The 100 Classic Cocktails To Try Before You Die list began making the rounds last week but it's different from your average internet meme. While it's popping up all over on blogs and Twitter, the list originated as a menu recently introduced at Anvil, a craft-cocktail bar in Houston. Created by co-owner Robert Heugel and his Anvil partners, the selection of drinks (simply known as “the list") doesn’t lay pretense to being the best 100 drinks in creation or even a balanced representation of the best drinks in mixological history. Rather, the owners owe up to the list's subjectivity and arbitrary nature. “We at Anvil...
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Note: Since this street food trend is getting a little out of control, it's time we get to know the vendors behind it all. Today we're kicking off a weekly series that will profile street vendors from across the country. First up, the Food Shark in a little town in West Texas. Name: Food Shark Vendors: Krista Steinhauer (chef) and Adam Bork (art director, mechanic, food prep, and cashier extraordinaire) Location and hours? Center of town in Marfa, Texas, on Tuesdays through Friday for lunch between 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Marfalafel What's on the menu? Falafel (or in Food Shark terms, "marfalafel"), hummus, salads, and a variety of daily specials including regional fare (like Mexican) and more How...
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Photograph from Library of Congress/Flickr A soda jerk working in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1939. The term soda jerk came from the motion of the arm while adding soda water to an ice cream soda. Soda fountains were once ubiquitous at drug stores. [via Howard]...
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From the Serious Eats inbox, a moving story of one man's longing for banh mi fulfilled. Not the banh mi in question, but no less tasty, we're sure. Photograph by Robyn Lee Dear Serious Eats,Everyone in Serious Eats land has mentioned or had a banh mi at some point or another, but I’ve never been able to chime in because I have had no such luck. With folks in New York and California having an abundance of restaurants to choose from to find these tasty treats, it makes us folks down in Texas a bit jealous, until now. [Jealous? What about your awesome barbecue? —Ed.]Believe it or not there is a rather large Vietnamese population here in the Richardson and...
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Photograph from longhorndave on Flickr Bill Waters, a Tulsa man tooling around in a Texas Panhandle antiques store, discovered a very interesting Dr Pepper artifact in a ledger book he found and bought there: The recipe written in cursive in the ledger book is hard to make out, but ingredients seem to include mandrake root, sweet flag root, and syrup.It isn't a recipe for a soft drink, says Greg Artkop, a spokesman for the Plano-based Dr Pepper Snapple Group. He said it's likely instead a recipe for a bitter digestive that bears the Dr Pepper name.He said the recipe certainly bears no resemblance to any Dr Pepper recipes the company knows of. The drink's 23-flavor blend is a closely...
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Even if you haven't been to Texas, you might be familiar with Mr. Stubblefield. His brand of barbecue sauce, known simply as Stubb's, is stocked at most grocery stores nationwide. And though some might assume it's just a marketing ploy, that face on the package was real. He died in 1995, but his legacy (of making fingers everywhere all sauced-up) extends to the music world. He was as obsessed with music as he was with smoked meats. NPR's Kitchen Sisters has a nice profile on Stubblefield, whose Austin barbecue joint (also, conveniently, called Stubb's) doubles as a concert venue, and was hot this week on the four-day SXSW music fest circuit. From Neko Case to Ben Harper, plenty of...
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Photograph from MidtownLunch on Flickr While in Austin for South by Southwest Interactive this week, Zach Brooks woke up to arguably one of the best complimentary motel breakfasts. The downtown Austin branch of La Quinta had a DIY Texas-shaped waffle iron. You know state pride runs deep when waffles are involved. The iron is actually available on Amazon for $59.95. Related "The Secrets of Successful Food Blogging" Panel at SXSW, via Twitter Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever Gallery of Texas Burger Porn from the 'Houston Press'...
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Will van Overbeek/Houston Press Matt Martinez Jr., the "King of Tex-Mex," died on Friday. He was 63. Martinez and his family owned the Dallas restaurants Matt's Rancho Martinez and Matt's No Place as well as a stake in Matt's El Rancho in Austin, the restaurant his father founded. Robb Walsh, on his embrace of the term: Matt Jr. was attending a cooking class taught by Englishwoman Diana Kennedy, who spoke derisively of Americanized Mexican food."She said she only did authentic Mexican food, not Tex-Mex," Martinez fumed in the introduction to his book [Matt Martinez's Culinary Frontier]. "I was so insulted." To defy Kennedy and those who belittled his heritage, he decided to abandon any claim to "authentic Mexican" and...
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The trio of SXSW Festivals and Conferences (Music, Film, and Interactive), best described as Spring Break for geeks, kicks off this weekend in Austin, Texas. Maybe you've already decided which panels, screenings, shows, and parties you'll be attending—or not. That's OK, there are more pressing concerns like, where are you going to eat? The SXSW Baby! Guide: Where to Eat During SXSW 2009, has all the answers. Originally compiled and written by Kathryn Yu, a SXSW veteran and a serious eater, this year's edition has been updated by Jessica Reynolds and Brad Graham. Restaurants included meet the top criteria of hungry festival-goers: close proximity to the Convention Center, easily accessible by foot, cheap, fast, and tasty. You can find all...
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