Email Author Katharine Shilcutt

Awards

• 2012 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  "A Tale of Two Dinners"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 11, 2011

  "The Fish That Got Away"

• 2011 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published June 10, 2010

  "Designer Meats"

• 2011 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published June 10, 2010

  "Designer Meats"

• 2011 - Lone Star Awards, published April 15, 2010

  "Chef Tats"

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2013 Stories by Katharine Shilcutt

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  Cheap and Cheerful: Three Meals for Two People from One Rotisserie Chicken

  published Apr 24, 2013

  "Cheap and cheerful" is a phrase I picked up while traveling in northern England, used to refer to a quick, inexpensive and tasty meal. I immediately pocked the phrase, loving the connotation that che... More >>

• From Tacos to Tikka Masala

  published April 25, 2013

  Top 10 What differentiates a "classic" food truck from those on last week's list of Houston's Top 10 "Fancy" Food... More >>

• Maine-ly Delicious at Maine-ly Sandwiches

  published April 25, 2013

  Take a tour of the More >>

• Have a Friend Who Hates Broccoli and Anchoviesr Take Them to Vinoteca Poscol

  published Apr 23, 2013

  Maybe it's the contrarian in me -- the endless debater who loves a good, healthy, productive argument -- but there are few things that bring me more pleasure in this world than finding a food someone ... More >>

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  Jeannine's Bistro Temporarily Closed, but Sorrento Has Reopened

  published Apr 23, 2013

  A mix of good news and bad news from Lower Westheimer: After a small kitchen fire in late March shut its doors temporarily, Sorrento reopened last week. "We are very happy to announce that after rece... More >>

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  Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Offal

  published Apr 23, 2013

  Thanks in large part to the fact that "awful" is a homonym for "offal," there's no terrific English word to refer to the entrails of an animal -- the tender, delicate bits that were, until a few gener... More >>

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  Pop-Ups Are Back: Will They Continue to Predict Houston's Culinary Futurer

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Restaurants such as The Pass & Provisions, Oxheart and Goro & Gun are already so firmly affixed in Houston's culinary firmament that it's sometimes difficult to believe the restaurants which are bring... More >>

• Jean-Philippe Guy Bids Adieu to Bistro Provence and Bonjour to French Country Wines

  published Apr 22, 2013

  After weeks of behind-the-scenes maneuvering to get his importer license and divest himself from French restaurant Bistro Provence, owner Jean-Philippe Guy is switching from one French venture to anot... More >>

• Date Night for Very Little Dough at Doshi House

  published Apr 22, 2013

  When I'm not eating out on official paper business, I'm on a budget just like most people my age who are still paying student loans on top of car notes, mortgages, ridiculous cell phone bills and more... More >>

• Upcoming Events: Cinco de Malo and a Wine Dinner at a Gastropub

  published Apr 19, 2013

  L'Olivier, the subject of a very recent (and mostly glowing) cafe review, is celebrating its one-year anniversary this coming Tuesday, April 23. In honor of that milestone, the restaurant is hosting i... More >>

• The 5 Best Things to Eat or Drink This Weekend: Social Hour at Etoile, Wine Fest at Brenner's, Barbecue at Killen's and More

  published Apr 19, 2013

  Novelist Chuck Palahniuk once said: "The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend." Here are five hand-picked things to tell your friends ... More >>

• Openings & Closings: Welcome Montrose's Midtown Bar & Grill

  published Apr 19, 2013

  La Guadalupana is one of Montrose's most beloved Mexican restaurants, a charming family-run bakery that also happens to turn out top-notch Mexican breakfasts every day of the week. And soon, it could ... More >>

• Rich Food, Poor Food Authors on Choosing a Nutrient-Rich Diet and Avoiding Pitfalls at the Grocery Store

  published Apr 18, 2013

  I'm not much for diet books. I'm not much for diets, period. They're too often nonsensically restrictive and disappointingly uneducational. So you lost ten pounds on the Atkins diet -- what did you l... More >>

• The Eating...Our Words 100: Randy Evans, Chef at Haven and Farm-to-Table Godfather

  published Apr 18, 2013

  Randy Evans has an exuberant personality that comes through in his cooking at Haven: passionate about local products and seasonal produce, expressive of its Texas roots. There's no mistaking where you... More >>

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  Banana + Nutella Is a No-Fail Combination: Our 13 Favorite Examples in Houston

  published Apr 17, 2013

  I'm willing to bet any American who's tasted Nutella can tell you all about the first time he or she encountered the addictive product. Most of us didn't grow up on the sweet hazelnut spread as so man... More >>

• This Week in Food Blogs: What Is E. Colir

  published Apr 17, 2013

  Eater Houston: It's Burger Week around the national Eater circuit, and all of the Eater city blogs have posted their favorite burgers to eat right now. In Houston, editor Eric Sandler has compiled a l... More >>

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  Houston Food Trucks Featured on Eat St.: We Compile Our Own Houston-Centric Episode

  published Apr 17, 2013

  Although the Cooking Channel was ostensibly created to air the kind of cooking-oriented shows that the Food Network used to air -- remember those shows where chefs actually showed you how to make food... More >>

• Here, Eat This

  published April 18, 2013

  On the Menu For this week's edition of Here, Eat This, we venture into South America, where hardy Houstonians possessed of a... More >>

• Fat Bao: Bao Wow

  published April 18, 2013

  Check out a behind-the-scenes look at Fat Bao... More >>

• We're Bringing Sexy Beer and Food Pairings Back, This Friday at Phoenicia's MKT Bar

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Craft Beer Hoppy Hour, our limited-run series of beer and food pairings at Phoenica's MKT Bar downtown, were so well-attended this past winter that we've brought them back once again by popular demand... More >>

• PSA: This Rat Fetus Was Not Found in Timmy Chan's Fried Rice

  published Apr 16, 2013

  The Original Timmy Chan's on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (a.k.a. Timmy Chan's Chicken & Rice) may have only been inspected by the City of Houston Health Department once since November 2010, but t... More >>

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  Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to German Cuisine

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Modern-day Texans may not see much German influence when they look around, but the indirect effects of decades of German settlement still linger in large pockets of the state. The first waves of Germ... More >>

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  Burgers Off the Beaten Path: Shuttle Burgers and Space Age Memorabilia

  published Apr 15, 2013

  Inside the shady dining room at Shuttle Burgers, inflatable space shuttles and cartoonishly fat airplanes twirl slowly at the end of fishing wire suspended from the mottled ceiling tiles. In one corne... More >>

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  Chef Maurizio Ferrarese Offers Cooking Classes and Comedy at Quattro

  published Apr 15, 2013

  I've been to plenty of cooking classes and cooking demonstrations over the years, but none as enjoyable as the one I attended last week Quattro. Much of this is attributable to the genial Maurizio Fer... More >>

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  Urban Harvest's Eastside Farmers Market to Run All Weekend Long

  published Apr 15, 2013

  For all of the wonderful things that our Houston farmers markets offer, a consistent daily location isn't one of them. On one hand, it's incredibly convenient that there are farmers markets spread al... More >>