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  • Texas Wine: Wine Expert Anthony Giglio Dishes on Texas Wine, His Austin Wine and Food Festival Seminars and His Zero Tolerance for Wine Snobs
    Want to know how Texas wines rate on a national level? Yes, many are winning national awards from East Coast to West, but how does the general sphere of wine experts view regional wine, and more specifically Texas wine? I recently had a few minutes to catch up with Food & Wine magazine wine expert, [...]
  • A Conversation with Erica Waksmunski, New Pastry Chef at Congress, in Austin
    The position of pastry chef at Congress, the new and much-lauded fine dining venue in downtown Austin, didn’t stay open long. Thirty-one-year-old Erica Waksmunski has slipped into the opening left by the departure of Plinio Sandalio (who went to the Carillon, in Austin). She started on January 22.  Two days ago I sat down with [...]
  • What You Need to Know About Dining in Texas This Week
    We’ve been waiting. We’ve been watching. We’ve been reading the tweets. We’ve been following the FB posts. Finally, a few much-buzzed-about restaurants will be opening their doors this week. (One even decided to open tonight—a day early. Surprise!) We confess that we can’t keep up with every new restaurant in Texas (can you imagine?), but [...]
  • Oh no! Barbecue Stalwart Wild Blue Is Closing.
    Little did I know when I wrote the following words nearly four years ago—“Please, patronize Wild Blue before it’s too late”—that my greatest fear would come true. One of the true stalwarts of Texas Barbecue–Wild Blue B.B.Q., located in the near-Brownsville city of Los Fresnos—will shut its doors on February 4. Wild Blue was included [...]
  • More Proof That Austin Is Smoking Hot!
    There’s nothing like a bandwagon. No sooner did Food & Wine and Bon Appétit fall all over themselves to give Austin a whole lotta love than StarChefs.com (an online magazine for chefs and culinary insiders) decided to hold one of its four national awards ceremonies in Austin this year.  Their editorial board scoured the landscape [...]
  • Texas Wine of the Month: La Cruz de Comal Wines, Dickson “Petard Blanc,” 2009
    It’s a rare thing to find a winery producing purely natural wines. But to Lewis Dickson of La Cruz de Comal Wines in Sparksville (near Canyon Lake), there’s really no other way to do it. Dickson, with the help of notable California winemaker Tony Coturri, uses small batch harvests of Hill Country grapes and ferments [...]
  • Pourology 101 Comes to San Antonio
    Modeled on the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, the first ever San Antonio Cocktail Conference is ginning up for next weekend, with four days of drink seminars, guided tastings, and cocktail parties. You can get a buzz just reading the program, which is amazing both in its scope and in the talent they’ve managed to lure to [...]
  • Texas Spirits: Texas Tequila, an Epicurean Spirit
    Texas Tequila? Well, they make everything else in Texas including beer, wine, bourbon and vodka. Why not have a Texas tequila? At least that’s what Tom Nall, owner and CEO of Republic Tequila thought when he decided to take on the idea of a Texas tequila in 2008. NOTE: By law, tequila can only be [...]
  • The Pies Have It–This Saturday! Y’all Come!
    There are two kinds of people in America: pie people and cake people. If you’re a pie person (as I proudly count myself), consider coming to the fourth annual “Peace Through Pie” Social this Saturday, Jan. 14, from 2 to 4:30 p.m., at the  Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church in Austin, at 1725 W. 11th. [...]
  • Texas Wine: Guy Stout, the Expert’s Expert on Wine
    When it comes to wine experts in the state of Texas, there are a number of reputable individuals you could look to throughout the state. From restaurant sommeliers, wine buyers and importers and even wine journalists, if you’re looking for an answer to a question on wine, you can certainly find a reliable source to [...]

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