Subject: Food and Drug Administration

• And Just Where Was Tinker Bell In All This?

  February 15, 2007

• That's Hotze

  August 3, 2006

• Salty Sourcing from the Chron

  December 11, 2007

• Deceased Inmate's Mother Files Suit Against Harris County and Taser International

  January 18, 2008

• PETCO Food Seized by FDA

  June 20, 2008

• Money and Masa

  A few words with underground rapper/tamale kingpin Chingo Bling

  September 4, 2003

• Sued By AG, Texas Company Takes Its Game Elsewhere

  November 5, 2008

• Fen-Phen Side Effects: Irritable Lawyers

  November 7, 2008

• Cameron Frye Has a Big Idea

  July 4, 1996

• A Bitter Pill

  April 23, 1998

• Mission Impossible

  July 30, 1998

• Biological Disaster

  August 20, 1998

• Dish

  October 1, 1998

• Dealing with Adversity

  June 3, 1999

• Immune to Reason

  June 3, 1999

• News Hostage

  February 10, 2000

• Calorie Restrictors Stay Hungry in Hopes of Living Longer

  An SMU biologist searches to unlock the secrets to the fountain of youth

  February 19, 2009

• Oyster Lovers Unite

  February 12, 2009

• Ike, Cancer, KBR and Oysters

  Waking Life

  January 15, 2009

• Cancer Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski Sees Himself as a Crusading Researcher, Not a Quack

  January 1, 2009

• Dickens on the Strand

  November 29, 2007

• Lights Out

  Fireflies are dissapearing from the night sky

  March 2, 2000

• Mail Call

  Vlog Spot

  July 5, 2007

• Oh, Baby Baby

  June 7, 2007

• Baby Blues

  Lisa Collins took the Paxil her doctor prescribed. There was supposed to be no problem with her continuing it during her pregnancy. Now, it seems, there was.

  September 14, 2006

• Letters

  September 22, 2005

• One Dead Guinea Pig

  A bad reaction to a drug trial sparks an investigation into Houston's Fabre Clinic and its founder

  July 28, 2005

• Doctor Nice

  July 21, 2005

• Brave New Art

  Artists take on corporations and the government in "Thought Crimes"

  May 12, 2005

• Letters

  April 21, 2005

• Exposed Nerve

  Cyberonics has implanted its pacemaker in thousands of epileptics. It wants to expand to the depression market. Still needed: an accounting of those who died or were injured after receiving its implant.

  April 7, 2005

• I Hate It

  This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe

  September 16, 2004

• Sex, Death and Oysters

  March 25, 2004

• Bloodless Coup

  There'll be no waivers for patients in this experimental blood-substitute program

  March 4, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  October 16, 2003

• Med Check

  Texas can't decide whether to pay for drug-resistance tests that could prolong the lives of those with HIV. For John Termine, it's already too late.

  July 4, 2002

• Keep On Shuckin'

  Live dangerously with the Double Dumbass Combo at Gilhooley's Raw Bar

  April 11, 2002

• Fish Fraud

  November 1, 2001

• How Now Mad Cow?

  Europe has a problem with diseased cattle. Should Texans be wary?

  April 5, 2001

• Side Order of Worms?

  You like fresh salmon? So do marine parasites.

  March 29, 2001

• Junk-Food Journalism

  A new book detailing the "dark side of the all-American meal" could use a little more beef itself

  February 8, 2001

• No More Waiting Room

  A mother fights for a therapeutic dive for all who need it

  April 20, 2000

• Image Augmentation

  Plastic surgeon Franklin Rose saves his best makeover for himself

  December 30, 1999

• From Sea to Shining Seafood Platter

  Photos by J.C. Reid Coming to a seafood platter near youChances are that if you eat seafood in Houston on a regular basis then Jim Gossen provides at least some of it. Gossen is the founder and CEO of Louisiana Foods, one of Houston's largest seafood distributors. The history of Louisiana Foods reads like the recent history of the seafood business in Southeast Texas and South Louisiana. In 1972 Gossen teamed up with Billy and Floyd Landry to start the first Don's Seafood restaurant in Mo

  May 8, 2009

• Good Vibrations

  January 4, 2007

• 9/9/09: Songs With a Certain Number in the Title

  ​As Hair Balls pointed out, we've only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden obsessive-compulsive in all of us, so join us as we wash our hands nine times, lock the door nine times, and listen to nine great songs featuring the number nine. The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9: The titular love potion that turns this song's protagonist into a maniac who starts "kissin' everything in sight"

  September 9, 2009

• FDA to Ban Raw Gulf Oysters in the Summer

  ​You won't be eating raw live Gulf oysters in the summer anymore if a promised FDA ban takes effect. At the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference meeting in New Hampshire on Saturday, an FDA official announced that as of 2011, the agency would no longer allow fresh, live oysters from the Gulf to be sold between May and October. The ban is intended to reduce illnesses and deaths from vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that thrives in Gulf waters during the warm summer months. Sales of post-

  October 19, 2009

• The Shameless Chef: DIY Shepherd's Pie

  ​Welcome to the first installment of The Shameless Chef, a new feature that will provide simple, hearty, creative recipes for the average person. Because, let's face it, real cooking is not for normal people. Real cooking requires difficult-to-come-by things such as "knowledge" and "ingredients." It frequently features confusing directions, like, "While whisking the wastrel flange into a simmering fervor, interpolate 1/8th of a smidge of mustard-pepper cumin. DO NOT OVER-INTERPOLATE." Ther

  October 20, 2009

• Gulf Oyster Ban Hysteria

  ​"A couple of months would have been okay, but five months is too much," oysterman Misho Ivic said about the newly announced FDA summer oyster ban. Oystermen were taken by surprise last weekend when the FDA went over the head of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Commission and announced an aggressive new policy to clean up health problems caused by vibrio vulnificus bacteria. Now the oystermen are trying to push back. The sale of live Gulf oysters in the summer months is scheduled to end

  October 22, 2009

• This Week In Deliciousness

  Liven up your Halloween parties this year with some carne asada con silly string.​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we defiantly eat summer sausage in the winter and we don't care who knows it. We kicked off this week at a sort of cookout triathlon with a plot of Texas land on the line. J.C. Reid likes his steaks like he likes his women: rare, aggressively seasoned, and shared with a drooling audience. E. Ting chatted up Remington Restaurant's executive

  October 23, 2009