Jeff Balke
The Good, the Bad and the Curry at Saint Arnold's One Pot ShowdownHouston's favorite brewery, Saint Arnold, held their sold-out Second Annual One Pot Showdown yesterday afternoon on the kind of overcast, slightly chilly day that was perfect chili (and gumbo and stew and curry) eating weather. The rules for the One Pot Showdown were simple yet challenging: teams could create any dish they wanted (desserts excluded) as long as it was cooked on site
Photos by J.C. Reid
Pretty. But is it pretty tasty?
What if our relationship to food was not one of physical necessity?
What if we consumed food not for corporeal nourishment but solely
for pleasure and intellectual stimulation, much as a music lover
consumes a symphony or as an art lover consumes a painting?
What would food look like, feel like, smell like, sound like, and most importantly taste like, in such a circumstance?
Fortunately for the food-obsessed among us who lay awake at ni
Photo courtesy of @bakerella
In the world of Twitter -- the love-it-or-hate-it microblogging service -- Fridays are known as "Follow Friday," a day devoted to suggesting new or interesting users for your friends to follow.
Depending on who you follow, your Twitter stream will be inundated on Friday mornings with gigantic circle-jerks of "She's awesome, she's cute and she churns her own butter! It's @buttermama! #FollowFriday" or the far more straightforward "@pinktaco @julienned @hotpotato @fat
​Because so little went on by way of restaurant openings or closings and so much went on by way of personnel changes at some of Houston's most high-profile restaurants, we're shifting focus this week.
First up is the news that Robert Gadsby, the executive chef and co-owner of upscale Heights restaurant Bedford, is out. Rumors were swirling for at least a month before his departure, while Gadsby took pains to quelch any rumblings. But on Wednesday night, Channel 13 reporter Miya Shay seeme
