Subject: Culinary Arts

• Barbecue in Black and White

  May 1, 2003

• Gingerbread House Smackdown at VOICE Tonight

  Click here for a slideshow... Tonight's the night that the results of a gingerbread house baking and design contest orchestrated by VOICE Restaurant Executive Chef Michael Kramer will be revealed to the world. In keeping with the season, Kramer challenged the city's best pastry chefs to put together the perfect gingerbread house - but one with a twist from the traditional offering.

  December 2, 2008

• Texas Chili: A Frozen Bowl of Red without Beans

  Whole Foods is selling plastic tubs of frozen chili concocted by Frank X. Tolbert, Jr. who also goes by the name, X squared. It's made out of ground beef instead of beef chunks and it's a little short on salt for my tastes, but otherwise it's a decent bowl of red. There are no beans in it, of course.   Frank the second used to make the chili at the family chili parlor in Dallas. His dad, newspaperman Frank X. Tolbert, wrote the book on Texas chili. And as you might imagine, the book and th

  December 5, 2008

• Dish

  January 16, 1997

• 5th Annual Tomato Fest

  June 4, 2009

• The Art of Cooking?

  August 21, 1997

• Sold American

  September 4, 1997

• Free Cooking Classes: Monica Pope is Plum Crazy

  And I mean that in the best possible way, of course.  In addition to creating one of the more popular farmers markets in town, Monica Pope -- head chef at locavore paradise t'afia -- is now offering free cooking classes every Saturday morning at the restaurant, located at 3701 Travis in Midtown. Green Plum Cooking School is hosted by Chef Pope at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday mornings and features a new class every week, as you learn to make dishes with the local food and produce a

  February 20, 2009

• Dish

  May 14, 1998

• Dish

  August 13, 1998

• Dish

  February 11, 1999

• Embarassing Moments In TV Cooking History: Welcome to the List, Padma

  Padma Lakshmi isn't technically a celebrity chef. Yes, she's published two cookbooks and hosted/starred in an array of food-related programming. But she's also known for plenty of other endeavors, chief among them being married to Salman Rushdie and her career as a highly successful Indian model/actress. This doesn't make her latest venture any less embarassing, though. Lakshmi is the star of a new Carl's Jr. commerical for the Western Bacon Six Dollar Burger, modeled along the lines of the

  March 27, 2009

• Guest Doesn't Outlast Welcome

  July 1, 1999

• Bryan Caswell: Houston's Best New Chef

  How do i begin; excited, elated, humbled, floored, it doesnt even scratch the surface! Me? Houston? Really? (my 1st 3 words to Dana Cowin) Photo courtesy of Wholefish Bryan Caswell in his trademark Astros ballcapBryan Caswell, who was just named one of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs of 2009, took to Twitter immediately after the official announcement to share his joy with the world.  Past recipients of the Best New Chef award, which recognizes rising culinary stars acr

  April 3, 2009

• Cowboy in the Kitchen

  June 8, 2000

• Best Latin Grill

  September 21, 2000

• Molecular Madness at Max's Wine Dive

  Photos by J.C. Reid Pretty. But is it pretty tasty? What if our relationship to food was not one of physical necessity? What if we consumed food not for corporeal nourishment but solely for pleasure and intellectual stimulation, much as a music lover consumes a symphony or as an art lover consumes a painting? What would food look like, feel like, smell like, sound like, and most importantly taste like, in such a circumstance? Fortunately for the food-obsessed among us who lay awake at ni

  April 8, 2009

• Illegal Immigrants in the Restaurant Industry

  December 20, 2007

• Bacon, Eggs and Barbera

  Treat yourself to Mediterranean-inflected breakfast foods and some of the most amazing wine deals in town at Catalan

  November 9, 2006

• Chefs Rule!

  If you can't stand the sight of lopped-off digits and the smell of your own flesh burning, get out of the kitchen

  July 7, 2005

• Pope: The Garden Gourmet

  Monica Pope

  May 5, 2005

• It's Le Bombe

  A new restaurant has Republican bigwigs dancing on the grave of the French boycott

  February 24, 2005

• Grande Plans

  December 2, 2004

• Odd Timing

  Bruce Auden cooks a benefit dinner for the scandal-ridden James Beard Foundation

  October 28, 2004

• Cooked Book

  The real chefs' surprise is who made it -- or didn't -- into Culinary Capital

  October 21, 2004

• Best Restaurant

  September 23, 2004

• Best Grocery Store

  September 23, 2004

• All the Way to the Bank

  What does it take to get a celebrity chef to put his name on a Houston restaurant?

  June 10, 2004

• Best Chef

  Scott Tycer

  September 25, 2003

• Best Indian Restaurant

  Restaurant Indika

  September 25, 2003

• The In-Tycer

  National honors go to the chef at Aries

  July 10, 2003

• Southern Specialty

  You can take TV chef Tanya Holland out of the South, but you can't take the South out of her

  August 1, 2002

• Luby's Has a Chef?

  From haute cuisine to the LuAnn Platter, star chefs are moving on down the food chain

  May 30, 2002

• Thai Raid

  In America, Thai dishes are being toned down. The Thai government wants to step in to stop it.

  March 28, 2002

• Noodle-Gazing

  A five-part journey into Houston's fusion scene starts with some noodles

  February 28, 2002

• Best Restaurant

  Aries

  September 20, 2001

• Best Local Television Commercial

  Fiesta Mart

  September 20, 2001

• Good with Knives

  Speaking off the toque: Jacques Fox

  March 1, 2001

• Mixing It Up

  Saba chef Dylan Murray returns home to add even more spice to Houston's restaurant scene

  October 26, 2000

• Hot Plate

  Americas

  May 4, 2000

• Thanks for Nothing

  The Chronicle's annual parade of prepackaged Thanksgiving recipes needs to be canned

  November 25, 1999

• Talk About a Fundraiser

  Photos by Jeff BalkeChef Albert Roux at the restaurant's grand opening in MarchChez Roux, the very fancy, very upscale top restaurant at La Torretta Del Lago Resort & Spa on Lake Conroe, is putting on a six-course wine dinner Saturday, June 6. It will cost $500 per couple, or $600 , if you want to sit at one of the chef's-table seats (hurry, those are limited). That's a lot of dimes, but then, it's not often you get a meal from not one but two Michelin-starred chefs. Besides raising money f

  May 20, 2009

• The Battle Rages On: Fried Chicken Throwdown at Beaver's

  Photos by Katharine ShilcuttRonnie Killen's skillet fried chickenSome had come for the spectacle of it all: 17 different fried chicken dishes, 9 enormous casseroles filled with various macaroni and cheeses, salads and side dishes and desserts enough to feed Alexander's own army. Some had come to observe the madness. And some came, bloodthirsty and ravenous to win, for the pure competition. The Fried Chicken Throwdown at Beaver's Ice House Monday night satisfied all parties: People shoved enough

  June 10, 2009

• Washington Ave. Revisited

  July 30, 2009

• One Night Only! Pork Belly Madness at Catalan!

  Photo by stu spivak​Monday, Monday, Monday! The battle to beat all battles will be held tonight at Catalan featuring contenders from across the city as they compete to claim the prize of Houston's best pork belly. The third in a series of popular "throwdown" events organized by Jenny Wang of the Houston Chowhounds, tonight's Pork Belly Throwdown will feature Cody Vasek (sous chef at Voice) and Randy Evans (executive chef at soon-to-be-opened Haven), the winners from the Fried Chicken

  August 17, 2009

• Radio Robb: Tune In Tonight and Tomorrow

  ​Our very own Robb Walsh will be making a guest appearance on The Michael Berry Show tonight and tomorrow night at 7 p.m., discussing a range of topics so wide that it necessitated two evenings of air time. Michael Berry -- who coincidentally just happened to win Best Local Radio Host in our annual Best of Houston® issue -- is a closet foodie in addition to being a political pundit and talk show host, and has lauded Eating Our Words as the best food blog in town on several

  October 5, 2009

• Chef Rick Bayless: Reluctant Rock Star

  Photo by J.C. Reid​A visitor to Macy's at Memorial City Mall last Wednesday would have been surprised at the more than 100 people -- many of them young women -- lined up in the Kitchen and Home area. Were the Jonas Brothers endorsing a line of tableware? No, but it was a rock star of sorts -- Chef Rick Bayless, hot off his recent win in the Top Chef Masters television series. For those not familiar with Bayless, he's the chef/owner of Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, and XOCO in Chicago and s

  October 7, 2009

• Valentino

  October 15, 2009

• Chef Talk: Mother Rucker

  Fabio​Cutting-edge chef Randy Rucker doesn't even have a kitchen. Eating Our Words crashed a private event he booked to get a look at what keeps him the most sought-after renegade around. Eating Our Words: What made you interested in molecular gastronomy? Randy Rucker: I'm not a boxer, so don't put me in that "molecular" gastronomy box. EOW: Well, what culinary box would you put yourself in then? RR: A box without a lid. The more you think outside the box, you inadvertently put yoursel

  October 28, 2009

• Bivalve Throwdown: Oysters With a Side of Intrigue at Stella Sola

  Photos by Katharine Shilcutt​In the heat of battle last night, the oysters -- and the chefs -- kept their cool. The fourth such event organized by Jenny Wang and the Houston Chowhounds, the Bivalve Throwdown at Stella Sola on Sunday afternoon saw 11 of the city's best chefs compete to create the best oyster dishes for a panel of distinguished judges. But that's where the "distinguished" part of the event ended: The afternoon was a celebration of the first Gulf oysters of the season that

  November 9, 2009