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The 12 Biggest Food News Stories of 2012: The Year In Twinkies, Go-Go Juice and Guy Fieri

From eating like cavemen to redneck sketti, we're taking a look back at some of the biggest food happenings of 2012. 12. Singapore Serves Mashed Potatoes...From A Vending Machine? The internet was abuzz when a photo of a mashed potato vending machine surfaced. Eventually, the viral picture was tr ... More >>

That's a Big Twinkie: A Soundtrack to the Apocalypse

The last shipment of Hostess Twinkies was supposedly delivered last Tuesday, as Hostess indeed filed for bankruptcy. Twinkies were also linked to great destructive forces in the movie Ghostbusters. This all falls very close to December 21, which marks the end of the Mayan Mesoamerican Long Count C ... More >>

Spoiler Alert!

A handy infographic guide to the shelf life of fruit.

Junk Drunk Food Gourmet: Your Guide to Late Night Snacking

Whilst living the life of a broke-ass college student for what felt (to me) like a gazillion years, my fiancé came up with the idea of Junk Drunk Food Gourmet. Think: your college pantry fancied up in a way only way too many games of survivor flip cup can fashion (the full idea involved an inebriat ... More >>

Bottle Service: I Just. Don't. Get. It.

Photo by DannyTamman on Flickr​I first learned about bottle service my freshman year in college. I was new to the Big City and all of its glamorous social practices and an acquaintance of my roommate had been "lucky" enough to be treated to the experience by her much older, i-banking boyfriend ... More >>

Rocks Off's Fantasy RodeoHouston Lineup

Photos courtesy of Houston Livestock Show & RodeoGeorge Strait in 1996​If you walk through Reliant Center, hanging from the ceiling are banners listing almost every musical performer RodeoHouston has hosted since the '60s. The names reflect the hallowed history of country and fleeting fancies ... More >>

Come and Bake It

Local movement fights for cottage food bill.

Pie, Dirt and Pimento Cheese: Food Trends for 2011

Photo by Troy Fields2011 will be the year of the hot dog...among other delights.​Back in October, Nation's Restaurant News released their annual list of predicted food trends for 2011. Some items were already cresting the horizon here in Houston two months ago: high-end junk food, one-dish res ... More >>

Black Crowes Pull the Plug

Band celebrates album's 20th anniversary by going on hiatus.

Numbers Update: Don't Mourn Goth Sanctuary Just Yet

Abrahan GarzaYes, this is Numbers.​Houston already has a bad case of shaken cat syndrome after the upheavals involving once-stable institutions like Fitzgerald's and KTRU this year, and when the Chronicle posted a listing saying that Numbers was up for sale, longtime fans and patrons went abs ... More >>

Urban Food Legends - Part I: Deadly Pop Rocks, Undead Twinkies and Corrosive Coca-Cola

They didn't blow up Mikey and they won't kill you either.​It would be convenient to say that urban legends and myths can be traced back to some shred of a fact, but the disturbing truth is that some, especially the more entertaining rumors, appear to have no real logical foundation whatsoever ... More >>

iFest: Of Drew Brees and Discount Perfume

Photo by Jason Wolter​Every year since 1971, iFest has grown. And every year, it becomes less and less distinguishable from any other festival in Houston, for better or for worse. This year's iFest spans two weekends and roughly ten city blocks around City Hall. It's filled with more sights, s ... More >>

Odd Pair: Twinkies and Nicolas Hermen Piesporter Goldtropfchen Spatlese

​This week, we were feeling a bit nostalgic, so we decided to pair Twinkies with wine. We haven't had a Twinkie since we were about 12 years old. But you're never too old for a Twinkie. People have been enjoying Twinkies since 1930. Today you can even find them battered and fried on restaur ... More >>

F*ck Love, Let’s Party: An Anti-Love Celebration

Being single on Valentine’s Day just got a whole lot more fun

This Week In Deliciousness

Pumpkin pie, more than anything else, is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.​ Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we can never remember whether or not you're supposed to hyphenate the word "roundup." Perhaps we should call this installment "This Wee ... More >>

Candy-Coated Fantasies

​After a fruitful trip to Half-Price Books in Rice Village, we stopped by the newest location of The Chocolate Bar, which serves up chocolate-covered fun in just about any form you can imagine: fruit, nuts, popcorn, coffee beans, pretzels, Oreos and more. If you can dream it, they can dip it. ... More >>

This Week In Deliciousness

Hopia baboy is a lard-based Filipino pastry, not the name of the new Sigur Ros album.​Welcome back to Eating Our Words' weekly round-up, where we separate the wheat from the chaff and then have Robb Walsh make us a bitchin' spiced blackberry chaffshake. We started off the week with some gou ... More >>

For Teddy: Our Favorite Dead Kennedys Songs

​That's right, we went there. Longtime Massachussetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, better known as Teddy, passed away late Tuesday night at age 77. News media sites have already gone to Defcon 2 - "A Famous Person Not Named Michael Jackson Has Died" - so Rocks Off thought we'd take a different appro ... More >>

PBS's Guru Of Extreme Skateboarding Twinkies & Ants Wearing Pants

Lois Bernstein​Skateboarding Twinkies, ninja squirrels and space hamsters are making their way to Houston, with Commander Mark leading the way. Things might get a little weird. Mark Kistler, the self-styled Bob Ross of children's art, will be holding drawing camps in the area over the next two we ... More >>

Twinkies, Racial Profiling and EaDo

It was a long time ago

His Twinkie Defense: It Was A Long Time Ago

This website, called the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, is, in Internet terms, an ancient classic. A War and Peace of the Web, if you will. When it was posted in - oh, em, gee - 1995, it caused a minor sensation. And it was started by two Rice students, Todd Stadler and Chris Gouge. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. ... More >>

His Twinkie Defense: It Was A Long Time Ago

This website, called the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, is, in Internet terms, an ancient classic. A War and Peace of the Web, if you will. When it was posted in - oh, em, gee - 1995, it caused a minor sensation. And it was started by two Rice students, Todd Stadler and Chris Gouge. T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. ... More >>

Fried Tamales for the Holidays

I guess if one waits long enough, everything ends up in the deep fryer. Fried ice cream, fried Twinkies, fried Oreos, you name it. I was in Mexico recently and came across a street vendor offering tamales dorados. Deep-fried tamales. I noticed that she had to use a protective cover when she put ... More >>

Astros-Giants: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, People

Astros-Reds: Houston Sweeps, Carlos Lee Injured

Astros-Reds: Bust Out the Twinkies

Get Lit: Pot Culture: The A-Z Guide to Stoner Language and Life, by Shirley Halperin & Steve Bloom

Mardi Gras Grill

On set with Weird Al Yankovic

The remaking of "Beautiful Liar"

Sandwich Circus

A California-style Vietnamese cafe is the cool new thing on Bellaire Boulevard

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

We Want the Funk

Cecil's Tavern rises from the ashes with a new look

Young Guns

Some are ready to die. Others aren't -- they just want a chance at a better life. But even the most careful of local teens who enlist in 2003 may find their plans for a desk job interrupted by war.

Summer of Love

Tamalalia 7 and West Side Story offer different musical takes on a time-honored topic

Life Begins at 41

Early success was almost the end of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Makeup Remover

The Eyes of Tammy Faye peeks underneath the persona of the garish televangelist

Larger Than Life

Anna Nicole Smith fights for a fortune as her past erupts

Rotation

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

A Question of Power

Do fields from high power lines cause childhood cancer? Years of research have revealed few solid facts. But Joe Jamail has charged the answer is yes, and HL&P knows it. He's headed to court to prove his case - or to dig into the utility's deep pockets.

Ray Wylie Gets Intense

The self-improved "Redneck Mother" man refines his technique