Food Security and Hunger

Stageside Blogging: The Spread

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Zombies Will Feed The Poor!

And I Ran (From the '80s)

I couldn't get away: The Houston music underground salutes our recently departed decade

Food & Foreign Policy

The World Affairs Council of Houston is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James Baker III. However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.

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The World Affairs Council of Houston is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James Baker III. However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.

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The World Affairs Council of Houston is best known for holding public events featuring foreign policy heavyweights such as former Secretaries of State Colin Powell and James Baker III. However two upcoming programs will extend the Council's reach into food-related subjects.

The Houston Food Bank's Peanut-Butter Problem

Photo courtesy Houston Food BankIf you think tossing out all the potentially tainted peanut products in your pantry sucks, imagine having to pitch two tons of the stuff.That's what the Houston Food Bank has been up to for the past month. Thanks to the salmonella scare, the organization has been forc ... More >>

Best Muffuletta

Murphy's Deli

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Murphy's Deli

Mussels In

Anthony Bordain insults and cajoles his newest kitchen recruit: you

Lite Sentences

TDCJ cuts the calories for convicts, leaving them and guards grumbling

Midnight Moving

Slap a light on your bike and take off into the night

The Offering

El Tiempo Cantina

Tit for Tat

A big anonymous boob bars a large fake breast from the medical center food drive

Texas, Unfortunately, Leads The Country In Hungry Kids

More than anywhere else the country, children in Texas don't know where they'll get their next meal.That's according to a recent study by Feeding America, the nation's food-bank network, which analyzed stats on "household food insecurity" published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. According to ... More >>

BARC Wants More City Money Now, Or Dogs And Staffers Will Die

The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control vaccinated only eight percent of animals on entry between July 2008 and January 2009, according to a BARC supplement asking for additional funding from the city. "Best industry standard is to vaccinate all animals entering a shelter, to minimize ... More >>

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The Hunger Walk

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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 -- ... More >>

KTRU Spring Outdoor Festival

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 -- ... More >>

Houston Food Bank A Step Closer To Its New, Gigantic Digs

Movin' on up, to the east side​Hey, Houston -- you are about to be home to the largest food bank in the nation!!Congratulations?On the one hand, it's great that the Houston Food Bank will take over the old Sysco Foods warehouse on the Loop and have plenty of room. On the other hand, it'd be even b ... More >>

Rahul Mitra: "Dialogues from Disparate Worlds"

The Indian-born artist explores social and economic disparity in his homeland

Houston Restaurant Week 2010

Help the Houston Food Bank by eating out

Upcoming Events

​Houston Restaurant Week is here once again, the annual benefit to assist the Houston Food Bank. And this year, "week" is a misnomer: Houston Restaurant Week runs from August 1 through August 21, giving you nearly an entire month to dine out at some of Houston's best restaurants, all while hel ... More >>

Upcoming Events

Fresh meat at Samba GrillePhoto by Gary R. Wise​This Sunday, celebrate Labor Day by enjoying the labors of others at Under the Volcano's 13th Annual Chili Cook-Off. The cauldrons will be boiling all day, but the public are invited out to dig in from 4 to 9 p.m. at the popular Rice Village bar. ... More >>

Your Belly Is Full; What About Your Neighbor's?

​The coming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a time when we all enjoy thinking about the massive spreads of food we'll eat with our families, how we'll abandon all pretense of formality and wear stretch pants to the dinner table and how we'll enjoy leftovers while watching endless footb ... More >>

Canned Acoustica

​The coming Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays are a time when we all enjoy thinking about the massive spreads of food we'll eat with our families, how we'll abandon all pretense of formality and wear stretch pants to the dinner table and how we'll enjoy leftovers while watching endless footb ... More >>

Walmart Wants to Be Friends on Facebook

​Although Texas has weathered the economic downturn better than most states, that's small consolation to those residents still unable to feed their families. According to research published by the Food Research and Action Center earlier this year, Texas has the 13th-highest rate of food hardsh ... More >>

Upcoming Events

​As mentioned yesterday, Lunar New Year will be celebrated this weekend across the city and in Chinatown in particular. The city's two biggest events will both take place near each other tomorrow, Saturday, February 5, so you can hit both if you can't make up your mind. The Chinese Community ... More >>

Houston Restaurant Week Could Become Houston Restaurant Month

Photo by Roswitha VoglerStone presenting a check to the Houston Food Bank signed with her own name, a point of contention from last year's Houston Restaurant Week​Along with nearly everyone else in the city who participated in last year's super-extended Houston Restaurant Week, we joked that - ... More >>

Eat a Burger, Fight Hunger at Little Bitty Burger Barn

​If I were asked to create my own burger to be featured on a menu, it would contain blue cheese and bacon -- and would preferably be served on a locally-baked bun; none of this soggy Sunbeam business. So imagine my surprise when I heard that Little Bitty Burger Barn owner Ricardo Luna had not ... More >>

Two Ways to Get Over the Texans' Loss on Sunday

Photo courtesy of the Houston Food BankJoshua Martinez, left, and Lyle Bento of The Modular made the best of the Texans' loss with a donation to the Houston Food Bank.​I hear the Texans lost on Sunday. I say "hear" because I couldn't bear the stress of watching the playoff game, and instead sp ... More >>