Tag: food
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Americans don’t know how to eat French bread – Austin’s Very Own #50
On the way to a friend’s house for dinner, we go over the truth about bread: Click here for episode MP3 To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play above to listen right now. We talk about the types of bread we…
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I pledge allegiance to Spaghetti – DrunkAndRetired.com #164
On the way home, I ponder possible pasta dinners. To listen to the episode, subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes or whatever, download the episode directly, or click play below to listen right here: Click here for episode MP3 I ended up cooking up some spaghetti, with ground meat! I had two servings a…
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The last week of January
This month started off with my birthday, as it does every year. Kim was kind enough to throw me a surprise party – the second she’s done – and many people were kind enough to come. Some even brought gifts, one of which I quickly finished off, mostly on the night of the party with…
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“I’m in your hands”
It’s hard to get good customer service, but it’s hard to be comfortable expecting it. On a recent Robert Brook episode he complains at length about the lack of old school customer service in London book stores: at the grand old Foyles in London. At least, he makes it sound as if it had been…
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Frank – A Hot Dog Review
At Frank, it’s hot-dog gimmicks and bacon galore, but they’re good eating at not too high of a cost. We have a weird mixture of “hand crafted”/local food and a love of fast-food here in Austin resulting in gourmet food from trailers, burger battles, and now hot-dogs. The “Artisan” hot-dogs are fun and tasty –…
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Austin Roasters Coffee Tasting
This past Sunday, several Austin-based coffee roaster got together for a sample-fest over at Owl Tree Roasting. With a $5 donation to Urban Roots as part of Eat Local Week, I crammed myself into a packed old car garage and managed to try coffee from several different roasters and coffee shops: Little City, Third Coast…
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The Franklin Barbecue is tasty
I had the brisket, which was good: he gave me some slight fatty slices and a bonus end piece on account of me saying I liked the edge. They have three types of sauces: espresso , sweet, and "pork." The last two were pretty good and the espresso was fun. Their sides were actually pretty…
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Westin Bonaventure, Sushi in LA
Westin Bonaventure, originally uploaded by cote. While at Adobe MAX this year, I stayed in this place, the “Bonaventure” as everyone calls it. It’s sort of a weirded out collection of five cylinder towers with a low-key hotel-mall inside. As a plaque next to an elevator noted, there was a scene in True Lies shot…
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A fruit bowl for two
Awhile ago, I thought it’d be nice to have a fruit bowl on the table. We’d have apples and bananas and grapes just like one of the endless, boring still lifes you see on vacation muesem strolls. Minus the marble-eyed fish and shoulder flashing milk-maids. Keeping all that fruit from rotting is tough work. Bananas…
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Just what is Southern food – and where is it going? “There is no food that is characteristic of the whole South,” Pillsbury said. “Grits are not everywhere. Biscuits are not everywhere. And you have to be open-minded about what you call cornbread.”
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