Photo: Liang Shi

We’re excited for the first-ever Austin Wine & Food festival this weekend! And to commemorate, we’re shining some light on the awesome Austin food scene. With the help of some Austin natives, we’ve put together a list some of the best food spots to hit while you’re in Austin. So if you’re heading over to Austin, Texas for the Fest, be sure to sneak off for a moment and try some of these local hot spots. Read More

Photo: Justin Cozart

If you have a long weekend this summer, try taking a summer food getaway. There are a lot of great regions and towns Read More

Bread is something that almost everyone loves, has a million uses, and can come in all sorts of flavors and styles. Whether you’re making a sandwich, a crostini, a bowl of bread salad, a grilled cheese, or just eating it alone, bread is something many people eat almost every day. And if you are eating it that often, you should probably be buying something good. Here is a short list of some of the best bakeries from around the country.  Read More

With Chef Tim Love's Team in Texas

Learning more about regional differences in American food is one of my favorite reasons to travel. In the South I have been to Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and getting to taste the regional variations in barbecue has been a great experience. I’m slowly getting this understanding of barbecue, this special cuisine, which isn’t common for a lot of chefs in the North. Read More

Street Food By Julia Burgi

Mobile food vending is not a phenomenon isolated to New York City. Some other American cities that are doing an awesome job of fostering street food culture!  Read More

The prices of meat and wheat are up, due to a prolonged drought in the center of the country. Changing climate conditions in the United States are contributing to the food price crisis. Read More

Regional barbecue loyalties run deep-differences between towns within South Carolina provoke rivalry and debate. Read More

This month, I was lucky to spend back-to-back weekends in Texas – Dallas followed by Houston. I LOVE Texas…the food scene there is so undercover and exciting.

Thinking of food in Texas, our minds wander to ribs, chili and tacos. Yes, there’s tons of that and it’s all so, so good! It’s nothing less than I expected. But as with everything in food these days, the Lone Star State is evolving. Read More

A friend recently told me that there are two restaurants in New York City that serve kangaroo.  “I really want to try it,” she said.  “I wonder what impact that meal will have on the environment,” I replied.  She brushed off the comment and told me more about the one restaurant that she planned on trying the kangaroo at.  Though I didn’t stop thinking about what I had said.  Here was my train of thought.  Assuming that the kangaroo meat was shipped to New York from Australia, that’s a ten thousand mile refrigerated journey.  Most of the beef in this country comes from Texas which is about fifteen hundred miles from New York.  So, on a journey that is about seven times as long, is the carbon footprint of the kangaroo about seven times as large as the footprint of the cow from Texas?  I’m not sure.

But here is something that I am sure of.   Read More