John Edge

Here, Eat This

A beginner's guide to Argentine cuisine.

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

For this week's edition of Here, Eat This, we venture into South America, where hardy Houstonians possessed of a hearty appetite will find much to love in the pampas of Argentina. See also: - Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Nigerian Cuisine - Here, Eat This: A Beginner's Guide to Korean Cuisi ... More >>

Eating Our Hearts Out

100 Favorite dishes in the Bayou City

A Love Letter to Houston Food (and a Map to Guide You)

In this week's cover story "Eating Our Hearts Out," we've once again rounded up all of the 100 Favorite Dishes from the prior year in one convenient spot -- dishes which exemplify Houston's status as "the South's new Creole city," "Mutt City," or whichever moniker you choose to apply to the City of ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Our Love Letter to Houston Food

Over at our food blog, Eating...Our Words, we count down our 100 Favorite Dishes in Houston each year for your gustatory pleasure. And in this week's cover story "Eating Our Hearts Out," we've once again rounded up all of those dishes from the prior year in one convenient spot -- dishes which exemp ... More >>

Let's Get Greasy

The 10 best fried chicken joints in Houston.

The Rest of the Best: Houston's Top 10 Fried Chicken

"What's your favorite fried chicken in Houston?" I asked my mother a few days ago over the phone, curious to see if I'd overlooked any old favorites on the top 10 list I was compiling. A sixth generation Texan, my mother has lived here for more than three decades and cooks for a living. Needless to ... More >>

This Week In Food Blogs: Churro Porn and Houston as Mutt City

Robb Walsh: In his continuing series on where Texas cuisine is headed, Robb Walsh talks to Underbelly chef Chris Shepherd about Houston's role as a "new Creole city," citing a recent article by Southern food writer John T. Edge called "Savoring Mutt City." (Mutt City is us, by the way -- and it's a ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes 2012: No. 30, Fried Chicken at Barbecue Inn

This year leading up to our annual Best of Houston® issue, we're counting down our 100 favorite dishes in Houston. This list comprises our favorite dishes from the last year, dishes that are essential to Houston's cultural landscape and/or dishes that any visitor (or resident) should try at least o ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: Bryan Caswell, Randy Evans, Danny Trace

In Houston, the restaurant community is so tight that everyone has worked together in some shape or form over the years. For this week's Where the Chefs Eat, we check in with chefs Bryan Caswell, Randy Evans, and Danny Trace. Evans is affiliated with a bunch of local chefs thanks to his time at B ... More >>

John T. Edge: The Truck Food Cookbook: 150 Recipes and Ramblings from America’s Best Restaurants on Wheels

Barbecue Inn Serves Some of America's Best Fried Chicken, Says Food & Wine

...to which Houston responds, "Well, yeah." Also: "Now go try Frenchy's." We usually don't write up every single "Best Of" listicle that comes our way here at Eating Our Words, but we considered today's fried chicken announcement from Food & Wine a public service reminder that Barbecue Inn does, in ... More >>

Crawfish Across the World

Ground crawfish powder, one of the "mother" spices in Nigerian cooking.​Louisianans like to think they've got the world on a string when it comes to crawfish, with small towns like Breaux Bridge laying claim to titles such as "Crawfish Capital of the World." But there are a few people in Niger ... More >>

Chingo Bling Gets New York Times Love - Food Love

Marco TorresChingo Bling, sans tamales in L.A.​Hey, guess what? A Houston musician finally got some love from The New York Times - not the semi-weekly Texas Tribune spread printed special for the paper's Lone Star press run, but the actual Gray Lady herself. Guess what else? It's in the food ... More >>

Chingo Bling Unlocks Hollywood's Key Club

When last we left Chingo Bling in Los Angeles, he was at his agent's Beverly Hills office, holding out for a better offer for a proposed September tour... Photos by Marco TorresChingo Bling and John T. Edge (right) wait in Latino 96.3's lobby.​FRIDAY, MAY 6 Latino 96.3 studios, Los Angeles, ... More >>

Chingo Bling: The Tamale King's Whirlwind L.A. Media Blitz

Photos by Marco TorresChingo Bling outside Hollywood's Key Club​Fresh off the heels of his sold out show at Houston's House of Blues, Chingo Bling was booked to perform at Hollywood's world-famous Key Club. The Tamale Kingpin invited Rocks Off to tag along and document the concert and his sur ... More >>

Reporting from the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium: "Taco Trucks and Crepes Trailers: Modern Texas Foodways"

Street food is picking up steam across the country, and Houston is no exception. During the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium last weekend, attendees were invited to view the exhibit "Taco Trucks and Crepes Trailers: Modern Texas Foodways" at the University of Mississippi's Gammill Gallery, runni ... More >>

Reporting from the Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium: Cultures Converging on the Houston Restaurant Scene

Robb WalshHamburguesa estilo Monterrey.​The Southern Foodways Alliance "Global South" symposium last weekend explored Southern culture and tradition beyond geographic boundaries. After Chingo Bling spoke about worlds colliding in Mexican American hop-hop, former Houston Press writer Robb Walsh ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes #5 Fried Chicken at Barbecue Inn

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

Robb Walsh's 100 Favorite Houston Dishes: #83 El Ultimo Taco Truck's Breakfast Tacos, Longpoint and Antoine

​Over the course of the next few months, I'm counting down 100 of my favorite Houston dishes. I chose some because they are such quintessential Houston creations, others for their cultural or historical significance, and others because they are just so damn tasty. Share your own nominations in ... More >>

The Mexicanization of the Hot Dog

​In Houston, as in Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver, Mexican-style hot dogs have been increasing in popularity. But when the mainstream hot dog chain James Coney Island introduced a Sonoran hot dog last year, you could feel the seismic shift as the tectonic plates of German and Mexican culture ... More >>

Brisa Cocina's Salchi-Burger

​I had a salchi-burger at Brisa Cocina Mexicana on San Felipe yesterday. What a lovely example of restaurant fare inspired by street food. The hamburger was topped with a thin slice of ham, jalapeño sausage slices, and melted cheese, and served on a toasted bun spread with refried beans and s ... More >>

Elated over Elote

​Elote con crema, or "corn in a cup," is a popular way to eat corn-on-the-cob at the little stands and taco trucks that serve roasted corn around the city. The corn-on-the-cob cocktail is made by slicing roasted corn fresh off the cob and mixing it in a cup with such condiments as Mexican sour ... More >>

Taco Truck Gourmet: Eating with Edge

​Noted food writer and Southern Foodways Alliance founder John T. Edge was in town this week researching a new book about street food. Edge already knows his way around Houston pretty well after putting on a Potlikker Film Festival event at the Saint Arnold's Brewery a couple of summers ago. E ... More >>

Taco Truck Gourmet: Frito Pie

Food writer extraordinaire John T. Edge is in Houston checking out taco trucks for a new book he is working on about American street food. I took him to visit some trucks on Longpoint. At the Refresqueria Rio Verde truck, I saw a hand-painted sign for Frito Pie and decided to order one. Here's a vid ... More >>

Buttermilk--The New Yogurt?

Mama’s Texas Bean Burger

I Love CFS: 25 Lovable Chicken-Fried Steaks

Who invented the CFS? There are a lot of competing theories. Whose do you love? Better try them all to be sure.

Fish on its Laurels

Gaido's in Galveston doesn't always live up to its storied reputation

Katrina & The Waves

Houston gets hit with its own hurricane surge

Texas Burger Binge

Our food critic reports on the state of the Texas burger -- and recommends 18 you need to try immediately

Fried in the Heights

At Barbecue Inn, the 'cue is tasty, but the fried chicken rocks

Southern-Fried Asian to Go

Exploring Houston's "you buy, we fry" seafood joints