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January 30, 2009
Houston's Own Artisanal Gelato
Marcelo Kreindel, owner of Trentino Gelato The dulce de leche gelato was masterful: velvety smooth with that familiar thick sweetness, but not overwhelmingly so. Some dulce de leche treats take on an overpowering, sickly sweet caramel flavor, but not this gelato. Th ... More >>
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February 19, 2009
A New Way to Crawl
Lennie Ambrose, events and marketing director at Saint Arnold and @saintarnold on Twitter.Any Houstonian who's fond of beer is familiar with Saint Arnold, our hometown hero microbrewery. And anyone familiar with Saint Arnold has been on at least one of their famed pub crawls through Ric ... More >>
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January 22, 2009
Saint Arnold One Pot Showdown
Sorry, this year all deep-fried dishes are banned
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June 9, 2009
Saint Arnold's Celebrates Their 15th Anniversary With the First Annual Beer Olympics
Photos by Jeff BalkeSunday's bracing heat and thick humidity didn't stop the hundreds of beer lovers who turned out to help local microbrewery Saint Arnold celebrate its 15th anniversary while feasting on barbecue and watching the spectacle that was the first annual Beer Olympics. Emcee Lennie Ambr ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Divine Reserve #9: A Pumpkin in Every Keg
We took one last trip to the old Saint Arnold brewery today for a very special occasion: Divine Reserve #9 is being bottled and brewed at this very moment, ready to hit store shelves on December 1. This particular batch of Divine Reserve was created by Nicholas Walther, a young bre ... More >>
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December 24, 2009
St. Arnold's Winter Stout
Normally we use the anniversary of some historical event to try to justify what would otherwise be a random beer review each week. But this is current folks, no encyclopedia digging required. This week, as early as yesterday at some stores and watering holes, our own St. Arnold Brewing Co. ... More >>
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February 1, 2010
A Sweet Showdown
Photos by Marco TorresClick here for a slideshowThe third annual Saint Arnold One Pot Showdown took place at the brewery's brand-new location on Sunday afternoon, a day which closely resembled last year's Showdown in cold weather and cheerful competitiveness but not in food. While many of las ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
Discount iFest Tickets Through KPFT; GaGa On Sale Next Friday; Husk Blows Away; Free Ani D Tickets & Poster Show
Courtesy of iFest.orgThe 40th anniversary of iFest is coming up next weekend, and this year music from the Caribbean will be spotlighted, with headliner and President of Funkadelia George Clinton (right; no relation to that other President). KPFT is also turning 40 this year, and for a limited ti ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Getting Stuffed at Big Bite Night
Photos by Marco TorresGuests snacking on an assortment of foods from Ra Sushi.There's something discomfortingly meta about gnawing the spicy flesh off a piece of jerk chicken as you stand, staring idly, next to an exhibit filled with stuffed fowl: Atwater's prairie chickens, ducks, cranes, al ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Garden to Glass at Backstreet Cafe
Garden-fresh doesn't always have to refer to the food you're eating. In some cases, as with Backstreet Cafe's Garden to Glass event, it can refer to the beverages you're sipping as well. The restaurant is holding what it hopes will be the first of a series of Garden to Glass events on Wednes ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Now Brewing at St. Arnold's: Weedwacker and Divine Reserve 10
Photos by John Seaborn GrayThe tasting hall at St. Arnold's BrewerySt. Arnolds's Brewery, at 2000 Lyons, is known for its steady release of fine local beer, but it's also known for its exclusive limited-run beers designed to keep Houston's beer lovers titillated. Last Thursday, I went to St ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Saint Arnold’s Oktoberfest 2010
Break out your lederhosen
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October 20, 2010
The 10 Do's and Don't's of Texas Food
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttOne of my hobbies is taking jingoistic photos of our state flag. God bless Texas!After seeing the dialogue back and forth on Lennie Ambrose's post about sweet tea and its availability in Texas, my colleagues and I began discussing our own caveats about eating in Te ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
5 Desserts That Are Actually Better Than Sex
Many claim the hyperbolic title - cakes, pies, layer desserts and the like - but few truly live up to the name. Here's a list we put together (from a solicitation of all the EOW bloggers) that could claim the description truthfully. 5. Paula Deen's "Is it really better than sex?" Cake While ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
Comment of the Day: Coronitas Edition
Today Lennie Ambrose discussed food and drink that sound good but always disappoint, including Corona, which he said doesn't hold up much past the first sip. Which got one of our commenters kinda, well, pissy. He wrote: Get Coronitas if you're so such a slow-sipping troglodyte. We love that ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Comment of the Day
As Lennie Ambrose informed us, Chick-fil-A is offering free Spicy Chicken Biscuits this week. Lennie got his yesterday morning, and man, did it sound good. But commenter eatTX wrote in to remind us that while we may agree that a hot, buttery biscuit with spicy chicken sounds incredible right ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Comment of the Day: A Fatal Flaw
Lennie Ambrose clued us into Food Insurance, a company that sells food that lasts at least 25 years, so customers can enjoy it while everyone else perishes due to end times. Something seemed a bit off about this concept, but we couldn't figure out what, until commenter CMN wrote in: If you'r ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
A Whataburger Taquito with Chorizo
As Lennie Ambrose mentioned the other day, we here at Eating Our Words occasionally consume meals of which we are less than proud. We know it's hard to believe, but even we who breathe the rarified air of the food blog occasionally fill our breathing holes with unadulterated crap. In fact, so ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Happy Birthday, Where's the Beef?
Yesterday marked the 27th anniversary of a pivotal event in American culinary history: the first airing of the Wendy's "Where's the Beef?" commercial (above). I know what you're thinking. "Has it really been 27 years?" If you're like me, you can remember exactly what you were doing when the ad fi ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Comments of the Day
Today Lennie Ambrose talked about the "Top 5 Foods that Just Seem Wrong," one being dishes involving both chicken and eggs, and the other foie gras. Commenter Kyle had something to say about both. Chicken and eggs: There's a Japanese dish called oyakodon, which translates to parent-and-ch ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Comments of the Day
Today, we learned a few things. First, in the comments to Lennie Ambrose's post about El Perico Agave Spirit, we acquired some new slang, courtesy of Ted Stickles: Hah, that's funny, 'perico' is slang for cocaine... We did not know that! And the comments of Katharine Shilcutt's post on s ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
The 5 Best Local Beers to Bring to Thanksgiving Dinner
A bite of banana in every beer.Just in time for Christmas, Buffalo Bayou Brewing hopes to release its first beer to the public: an 11 percent gingerbread Imperial stout that would be the toast of any Christmas dinner. For Thanksgiving, however, there are plenty of locally brewed beers that w ... More >>