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The Texanist: Why Isn’t Chicken-Fried Steak Our Official State Dish?
Q: I realize the food section isn’t your department, but perhaps you can provide me with some answers. Your magazine’s recent “Feast Around the World” cover story [November 2018] brought me to quit...
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All of the Texas Treats You Could Eat For the Price of That $1,600 Burger
Houston’s Post Oak Hotel recently announced a new menu item that seems as gross as it is grossly overpriced. “The Black Gold Burger,” which costs $1,600 American dollars, is comprised of sliced...
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This Plant-Based Chili Has No Meat (or Beans)
Unlike regular beef, Beyond Meat’s Beyond Beef product—a plant-based ground meat substitute whose sales have surged in the past few years as beef has come under fire for its environmental...
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From Mexico With Love
Besides the Black Box that the starched and creased young military man carried, there were always two other items aboard President Lyndon Johnson’s Air Force One: Superior Dairies ice cream from...
View ArticleCappyccino’s White Chili
Recipe from Cappyccino’s 5003 Broadway Alamo Heights 3 lbs. white beans, washed & picked over 1 gal. chicken broth 2 qts. water 6 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup vegetable oil 6 whole onions, chopped...
View ArticleTwo-Tone Chili
Chris “Whip” Layton’s Two-Tone Chili 2 bottles dark beer (Dos Equis) or 2 cans (15 ounces each) chicken stock Juice of 4 limes 6 tablespoons Pickapeppa steak sauce 3 pounds venison stew meat 5 slices...
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Recipe: Instant Pot Texas Chicken Green Chili With Cider
It’s Hatch chile season. Perhaps you’ve heard? These mild green chiles are an abundant, delicious, and extremely seasonal treat, whether they’re official Hatch chiles (grown in New Mexico) or the...
View ArticleThe Slosh Factor
The waitress at the Holiday Inn restaurant near Houston Intercontinental Airport had just delivered my bowl of chili when Chuck Thompson leaned for a closer look. “The texture is pretty good. It’s red...
View ArticleChili Relations
I came to the weird world of chili cookoffs rather late in life—last year on the first Saturday of November, to be exact. I’d been invited to judge the twenty-fifth annual Terlingua International Chili...
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Recipe: Instant Pot Texas Chili
The Instant Pot should be a Texan cook’s best friend. So many Lone Star staples lend themselves well to either pressure or slow cooking: think queso, beans, taco fillings, and stews of all kinds. Chili...
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The Texanist: If You’re Not a Fan of Fruitcake and Canned Chili, What’s So...
Q: I was born in Corsicana, a place famous for Wolf Brand Chili and fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery. No true Texan eats canned chili, and I’m not sure many eat fruitcake, either. In fact, was...
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Doesn’t anyone have anything to say about barbecue?THE COVER STORY ON BARBECUE was great [“Smokin’!,” May 1997]; however, one thing was left out—a scratch-and-sniff page.GORDON RUBINETTAustinI SUSPECT...
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Liberty Hill’s Agape BBQ Smokes Meat With Love
Jeremy Archer was ready to leave the barbecue game and go back to his corporate IT job when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. He had opened Archer BBQ in Cedar Park, which he described as “a...
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The 70-Year Journey to Making Bolner’s Fiesta Brand Spices Texas Kitchen...
Clifton Bolner wanted out of the grocery business. He had worked for his grandfather, Joe Bolner Jr., since he was a child, and, with typical Texas swagger, he was looking for a way to prove his own...
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This Pitmaster Wants to Make El Paso a Barbecue Destination
Joe Martinez’s wife calls him a serial hobbyist. He went through a phase with bowling, then one with drones; gun collecting and hunting were next, and then he bought a Camaro for drag racing. The...
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