"Well, everyone loves bread,” Joshua Weissman says plainly. And while that’s probably true, few people love it as much as the 23-year-old former Uchiko cook and YouTube culinary star. (If his ...
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Jen Holmer El-Azzi lights up when talking about sourdough. “It’s like maaa-gic,” she says slowly and playfully with a big smile — like a good witch casting a ...
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If there’s one flavor that truly embodies the spirit of Texas, mesquite just might be it. A native, drought-resistant crop, the mesquite tree serves as a source of firewood, smoking chips, pods and ...
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Stuck in traffic on north 183, I often wonder what goes on in all those sprawling, anonymous storefront office units and warehouses lining the highway. Most of it is probably pretty ...
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When Diana Dussan wanted to test her new jackfruit jerky, she knew if she could win over her “sixty-something, retired-military, anti-anything-vegan, mountain-man of a stepdad,” she’d be onto ...
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When artistic inspiration strikes, some write, some paint, some perform. De J. Lozada makes popcorn. Nothing less than the muse of kernels struck Lozada when she dreamed up and perfected nearly all ...
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In 2006, Michael Pollan published “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.” It was a groundbreaking book that tackled the idea of rethinking the modern food system, and it ...
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Hank Shaw is a self-professed omnivore who says he’s solved his own Pollan-esian dilemma. As a wild-foods advocate, he forages, gardens, fishes and hunts—prepares and eats it all—and then ...
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What do you do after completing a one-woman goodwill running tour across America for nine months? Move to Austin sight unseen, of course, and start delivering homemade soup and energy balls on a bike ...
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Danaë Smale is a palette knife- and paintbrush-wielding abstract painter who happens to use buttercream as her medium and sponge cake as her canvas. “My customers are often bohemian brides and ...
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