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  Deep Fried Rodents and Other Foods We Just Don't Eat 'Round Here

  September 4 at 4 a.m.

  Sure, we're all just totally grossed out at the video of the mouse scampering across the counter of the Whataburger in Bastrop. While the cashier was quickly offering diners their money back — but only with a receipt — one brave soul was trying to catch said mouse. But for...

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  Filmmaker Alyssa Rachelle Explores the Cultural Influences Behind Gumbo

  August 5 at 5 a.m.

  The lights were dim in the DeLuxe Theater as guests sat around banquet tables and stared intently at the screen. Projected in front of them a woman and a chef moved through the tight, hectic space of a restaurant kitchen as line cooks prepped for the evening’s guests. The two...

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  Hope Farms and Recipe for Success Hosts Chefs in the Field

  June 11 at 5 a.m.

  In a food desert, near Hobby Airport, is an urban oasis with a gathering barn, a chef's garden and fields of fresh vegetables growing in the hot, humid climate a few minutes south of downtown Houston. Hope Farms is the culmination of Gracie and Bob Cavnar's efforts to provide fresh...

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  Openings and Closings: Guard and Grace This Fall, Three Brothers Bakery Turns 70

  May 10 at 5 a.m.

  Guard and Grace, 500 Dallas, is slated to open in fall 2019 at One Allen Center. Troy Guard, executive chef and owner of TAG Restaurant Group, opened the first Guard and Grace Steakhouse in Denver, Colorado in 2014. The modern steakhouse takes a fresh approach to the genre with seasonal...

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  Vegans Will Be Protesting This Friday At The Mayor's Holiday Celebration and Tree Lighting

  Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:21 a.m.

  "What if you were forced to lay an egg every single day?" Dani Alexander, an activist for the vegan lifestyle and PETA prophet, said passionately. Sitting around her, a flock of others like-minded nodded. They had a point— what would you do? Probably be bewildered, and then upset. Sunday at...

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  El Tiempo Cantina Should Have Known Better With That Jeff Sessions Photo

  Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 5 a.m.

  My father instilled a very specific work ethic in me: if you have a job, it doesn’t matter what’s going on in the world, you get up and go to work. That’s not to say you don’t pay attention to what’s going on in the world — you’re still a...