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April 1, 2009
Recession Lunching at Rainbow Lodge
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Berkshire maple-brined pork chop with potato salad and espresso BBQIt's becoming more affordable than ever to dine in our city's finest restaurants, and Rainbow Lodge is no exception to that rule. Three years ago, the long-time Houston institution moved from its ... More >>
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February 12, 2009
Oyster Lovers Unite: Five Places to Eat Oysters This Valentine's Weekend
Photos by Katharine Shilcutt Berkshire maple-brined pork chop with potato salad and espresso BBQIt's becoming more affordable than ever to dine in our city's finest restaurants, and Rainbow Lodge is no exception to that rule. Three years ago, the long-time Houston institution moved from its ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
The Battle Rages On: Fried Chicken Throwdown at Beaver's
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttRonnie Killen's skillet fried chickenSome had come for the spectacle of it all: 17 different fried chicken dishes, 9 enormous casseroles filled with various macaroni and cheeses, salads and side dishes and desserts enough to feed Alexander's own army. Some had come to obs ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
One Night Only! Pork Belly Madness at Catalan!
Photo by stu spivakMonday, Monday, Monday! The battle to beat all battles will be held tonight at Catalan featuring contenders from across the city as they compete to claim the prize of Houston's best pork belly. The third in a series of popular "throwdown" events organized by Jenny Wang ... More >>
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September 18, 2009
The Wine Conference: A Chat with Geri Druckman
Next Saturday, Houston will be hosting a home-grown festival unlike any other the city has seen. The Wine Conference will bring together an assortment of food and wine personalities -- both national and local -- along with a high-tech twist that's due in large part to its founder, Geri Druckm ... More >>
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October 27, 2009
A Vegan Dinner at a Meatatarium
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttAppetizers: sweet potato chips and truffled carrots, radishes and turnipsVegans may take our cheese (and milk and meat and butter and even honey), but they may never take...our truffles. This seemed to be the rallying cry on Monday night at Beaver's Ice House as seven ... More >>
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October 28, 2009
Chef Talk: Mother Rucker
FabioCutting-edge chef Randy Rucker doesn't even have a kitchen. Eating Our Words crashed a private event he booked to get a look at what keeps him the most sought-after renegade around. Eating Our Words: What made you interested in molecular gastronomy? Randy Rucker: I'm not a boxer, so do ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
This Week In Deliciousness
MEATSPLOSION! Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where we've finally secured the patent on sourdough incense. This week started off with a bang, when Greenway Barista slammed the Luling City Market on Richmond, which is actually unaffiliated with the actual market in ... More >>
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November 9, 2009
Bivalve Throwdown: Oysters With a Side of Intrigue at Stella Sola
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttIn the heat of battle last night, the oysters -- and the chefs -- kept their cool. The fourth such event organized by Jenny Wang and the Houston Chowhounds, the Bivalve Throwdown at Stella Sola on Sunday afternoon saw 11 of the city's best chefs compete to create ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
What the Oughts Brought: Top 10 Innovations and Trends
Photo by Marco VeringaMolecular gastronomy, one of ten major innovations and trends of the last decade.What funny food trends have marked the last decade? And what innovations do we hope carry us into the middle ages of the millennium? Here are a few things that have kept our tongues wagging. ... More >>
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January 21, 2010
Food Fight: Battle Supper Club
Photo by GroovehouseDessert at a Reality Dinner / Click here for a slideshowOther cities have had them for years, but -- as with many concepts -- Houston is a bit behind the curve. We're talking about chef-driven, intimate, fiercely modern, multi-course dinners that allow a culinary wild man ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
Openings and Closings
According to My Table, Philippe Schmit has finally inked a deal for his new restaurant's new digs...outside Loop 610. You'll remember that Schmit himself had originally said he'd be moving to an inner loop location and would aim to be open in August. Instead, he's signed a lease in the same c ... More >>
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February 18, 2010
You Heard It Here First
The Press reported on the Prius long ago.
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March 18, 2010
Blog Stars
Ten local sites that rock our world
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May 19, 2010
Top Five Twitter Food Fights
As Craig Hlavaty briefly discusses in this week's feature on the Twitterverse, the food community has become one of the largest on Twitter. At first, it may seem unusual for members of a a non-tech-oriented community to have become such early adopters of the technology and to have built such ... More >>
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May 26, 2010
Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Fork and Cork: Greg Morago reports on the rumors swirling around Textile lately ... More >>
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July 28, 2010
Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Aghastronome: Former contributor to the now-defunct Houstonist, Mary Jane Poorm ... More >>
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August 2, 2010
A Comprehensive Guide to Houston's Food Blogs
Cartoon does not reflect reality (most of the time).In a city as large as Houston and with as many culinary options as we're blessed with, it's no surprise that the food blogging community here is large and diverse. Say what you want about food bloggers: that we're arrogant, obtrusive know-i ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Feeding Curiosity: The main reason for following Chef Randy Rucker's blog? Anno ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs
Each week, we put together a sampler plate of the most interesting links from both local and national food blogs. Know a blog we should be paying particular attention to? Leave the address in the comments section below. Culture Map: Sarah Rufca asks a question that anyone who deals with group dinin ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Upcoming Events
Photo by Troy FieldsHave you ever wanted to play chef for a day in the vast kitchen at Brennan's? Your chance to man the stoves (seen above) is coming up, as Alex Brennan Martin has now revived the Creole restaurant's beloved "Chef For A Day" program. Available only to one person per day (and ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
Five Questions for Geri Druckman and This Year's Wine Conference
Photos by Jeff BalkeSamples were drained during last year's Wine Conference sessions.Last September marked the inaugural year for The Wine Conference, an annual event pairing more than just food and wine. The Wine Conference seeks to pair people with knowledge, whether those people are wine e ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
Indigenous Bounties: Foraging with Randy Rucker
Wood Sorrel. Last Sunday, my wife and I woke up early and finally made the trek out to Bootsie's Heritage Café in Tomball, but we weren't there to eat. We were there to work. A few weeks back, Chef Randy Rucker made a titillating offer via Twitter: Come to Tomball and dig around in the woo ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Recipe: South Texas Asian Pesto
One of the most important things in cooking is learning to let ingredients speak for themselves. Too often, we as cooks take the position of alchemists, laboring under the false belief that we must be transformative, to make things other than what they are, better in some way. When gifted w ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
American Beautyberry-Infused Gin
A few weeks ago, I attended a class/seminar/expedition with Randy Rucker and the crew from Bootsie's Café out in Tomball. We were there to forage. Before we began our march through the woods, Rucker first offered a few words about the law of respect. Most important among these was to take on ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
The 10 Best New Restaurants of 2010
Which one of our top 10 restaurants landed a spot in the newest edition of GQ?Trying to select only 10 restaurants out of the dozens that have opened the past year is agonizing. In a good way, of course -- Houston has been fertile ground for innovative and passionate restaurateurs this year. ... More >>
Dining
January 6, 2011
The Top Ten New Restaurants of 2010
Which one of our top 10 restaurants landed a spot in the newest edition of GQ?Trying to select only 10 restaurants out of the dozens that have opened the past year is agonizing. In a good way, of course -- Houston has been fertile ground for innovative and passionate restaurateurs this year. ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Houston on the Horizon: Rising Stars Named by StarChefs.com
Chef Manabu Horiuchi of Kata Robata, one of this year's Rising Stars.I vacillate back and forth between craving attention for our city's culinary efforts and then finding myself annoyed with the attention we do get. Call it the heartburn that comes with having your cake and eating it, too. T ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
James Beard Foundation Recognizes Houston Chefs; Food & Wine Does Too, In Its Own Way
Should Randy Rucker (seen here working on one of his "tenacity" supper club dinners) have been recognized by Food & Wine?It's been a week of ups and downs for Houston chefs on the national radar. StarChefs.com made a long overdue trip to Houston to recognize a hefty handful of "Rising Stars" ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Kata Robata Chefs Take Inaugural Kiss My Grits Throwdown Title
Jason BargasLeft, Kata Robata. Right, Ouisie's.Grits have been an integral part of my life since I could gum food. Naturally, I was eager to get my gums (and teef) on the grits concoctions at Thursday evening's Kiss My Grits Gulf Coast Throwdown. Young Texans Against Cancer cobbled together H ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
10 Houston Restaurants Every Out-Of-Towner Should Visit
Photos by Katharine ShilcuttTexas barbecue done right at Gatlin's.On Wednesday afternoon, I mused that some day I hoped for visitors to Houston to feel as excited about our dining scene as I was about New York City's. The sheer breadth and depth of ethnic and regional cuisines present here is ... More >>
Dining
May 19, 2011
Bootsie's Kicks Butt
Tomball restaurant offering a culinary experience unlike any other.
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July 8, 2011
Openings & Closings: June 2011
Photo by Katharine ShilcuttAssorted macarons from Petite Sweets.This is a good time to live in Houston, folks. Never forget it. A week so filled with restaurant openings that it requires three pages (yes, I'm warning you in advance) to discuss should be proof enough of this fact. News that T ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
Bootsie's Heritage Cafe to Close, Leaving Tomball for Houston
The boys are back in town...In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, given chef Randy Rucker's notoriously short attention span, Bootsie's Cafe is closing at the end of the month. Rucker and company are packing up their chef's knives and moving back inside the Loop, according to a pr ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Openings & Closings
The big news this week, of course, was that Randy Rucker is packing up and moving to Houston. Bootsie's will still operate in Tomball under his mother's stewardship, but his new restaurant will be a partnership with pastry chef Chris Leung, located at 5219 Caroline in the Museum District. In ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
This Week in Deliciousness
Calamari is delicious but sad. Just think of all the many-armed hugs that squid will never give.Welcome back to the weekly roundup here at Eating Our Words, where, thanks to our new Gelatin Piranha™ we bought off of a late-night infomercial, we can now gelatinize an entire cow in under four ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
River Oaks Monster
Readers react to dramatic high society tale
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October 20, 2011
Chef Chat, Part 2: David Cordua of Americas, On His Role as Executive Chef and Favorite Eats Around Town
Photo by Mai PhamExecutive Chef David Cordua, in the kitchen at Americas River OaksYesterday, we talked to Executive Chef David Cordua, of The Cordua Group, about growing up in the kitchen and culinary school at Le Cordon Bleu. You can read about it here. Today we'll talk to him about what he ... More >>
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November 17, 2011
Chef Chat, Part 2: Mark Gabriel Medina of Kata Robata
Photo by Mai PhamChef Mark Gabriel Medina in the kitchen at Kata Robata Yesterday, Kata Robata's Chef de Cuisine, Mark Gabriel Medina, told us about growing up on fine dining in Southeast Asia, and serving President Bush Senior sushi at Houston Country Clubs. Today, we talk to him about his ... More >>
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December 12, 2011
A Tale of Two Dinners: Ava Kitchen & Whiskey Bar vs. The Modular
This lobster risotto and accompanying lobster came from your friendly local dive bar.One is a highbrow full-fledged restaurant -- a "brick-and-mortar" place, to use the parlance of the day -- owned and operated by heavyweight restaurateurs. The other is a cobbled-together food truck, ephemera ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
The Biggest Disappointments of 2011
The upside of Byrd's Market closing: Georgia's Farm to Market coming downtown.I think that 2012 is shaping up to be Houston's year, after a long 2011 featuring false starts, delayed openings, unexpected closings and failures to launch. That's not to say that 2011 didn't have its perks: Look ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Upcoming Events: Foraging Food and Cooking Game
Next weekend: Prepare for all the chicken soup you can nosh.Attention, DIY-ers and wild food fans: Two upcoming events are right up your paths. Follow chef Randy Rucker down one path for a Tapas on the Trails evening Saturday, February 11, at the Houston Arboretum. The food-filled evening wi ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Foodies, Your Photo Show Is Here
Chuck Cook PhotographyA photographer and his showAlex Gregg is not only an award-winning bartender at Anvil; he is also a professional photographer, and he recently put his skills to work last October at the very popular Les Sauvages Supper Club dinners. The fruits of his labor are now on dis ... More >>

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