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Eden East

by Jessica Newman • Photography by Kate Lesueur Though the food trailer and pop-up restaurant concept has saturated Austin, one mobile kitchen on the East Side offers a few unique and ...

Chef John Currence Is No Chicken

by Kristi Willis Chef John Currence of the City Grocery Restaurant Group in Oxford, Mississippi is playing chicken with the crowd at the Austin Food & Wine Festival. At his ...

Jeremy Barnwell

by Megan Giller • Photography by Alison Narro Some people might call Jeremy Barnwell a “lunch lady,” but the parents at Austin area schools are more likely to say he’s a vegetable ...

by Dan Barber The idea of chef as activist is a relatively new one. It was the nouvelle cuisine chefs of the 1960s who, breaking with an onerous tradition of classic French cuisine, stepped out of ...

Janelle Reynolds

by Kristi Willis • Photography by Kate LeSueur Chef Janelle Reynolds might be the winner of Food Network’s “Chopped,” but back at home, she’s a champion at teaching her son, Jace, to eat ...

Learn | Taste | Experience

SPONSORED Go behind the scenes with this video series to learn, experience and taste the best of this year's talent featured at the Austin Food & Wine Festival. April 25-27, ...

Jen and Alex Jackson

By Lauren WalzPhotography by Kate LeSueur Jen and Alex Jackson are remarkably laid-back for a hardworking power-chef couple. As they prep dinner in their apartment building’s breezy rooftop ...

Tink Pinkard

By Nicole LessinPhotography by Kate LeSueur It’s about five o’clock on a Saturday afternoon and Tink Pinkard is working in his backyard, breaking up small flames on the ground with a ...

Josh Watkins

By Layne Victoria LynchPhotography by Whitney Arostegui Some chefs embrace a dogmatic mind-set when it comes to cooking in a professional kitchen, while others labor tirelessly to innovate and ...

Tim Byres

By Kristi WillisPhotography by Kate LeSueur On a weekend morning, the activity at the Byreses’ ranch-style house in North Dallas wavers between energetic and chaotic. Tim and his wife, Mo, ...