Target, which btw donated $60,000 to Texas Wildfire Relief, is hosting a cook-off and grocery giveaway downtown. In celebration of the fresh food additions to Target stores in the Austin area, celebrity food critic Gail Simmons (judge and critic on Top Chef, host on Top Chef Desserts, and Food & Wine special projects manager) will host a cooking competition…
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Austin: Day ‘o the Week Breakdown
I love nothing more than a theme party, so you can imagine how excited I was to hear that two Austin standbys, old and new, are hosting themed events every day of the work week throughout the summer! Check out the Day ‘o the Week Breakdown for West Sixth’s Star Bar and South Lamar’s Gibson—almost…
I have decided I think about food too much
I spent this weekend with a new set of friends. A non-Paleo-eating, non-CrossFitting set of friends, who I watched consume foods I haven’t even considered eating for years. YEARS. Maybe ever. (Powdered donuts? Slurpees?) I’m certainly not judging, and they didn’t judge me for my eating habits (gotta love them for that), but it is interesting…
Sign the Petition for House Bill 1830 to Protect Raw Milk
We know I love it, drink it, and support it. I wrote about it here, here, and here. Today, Dr. Mercola published a very long but very interesting and important article on raw milk: click here to read it. He argues that as important as access to raw milk is for itself, it’s more important…
Austin: Praise, Pies & Pinatas at HOPE Farmer’s Market
Hope Farmers Market is putting on Praise, Pies & Pinatas during the regularly scheduled market time, 10am-2pm, Sunday, June 26. There will be a FREE Pie social, with coffee and ice cream, pinata workshops and smashing, and praise music from Son Armados and Anthropos Arts! Also, proceeds from donations will benefit Out Youth, a non-profit…
My Favorite Places
For an advisory position I’m fulfilling this coming week (more about that later!), I had to list my favorite places. As I sat down with both Austin and Aspen categories, I realized that the majority of my fave places are fitness-and-outdoors-related. No surprise, right? In Aspen: Bleeker Street, King Yoga, Rio Grande Trail, Jimmy’s, and…
ASPEN: Food & Wine Classic
I just got back from an Aspen Business Luncheon with Food & Wine Publisher and Vice President Christina Grdovic. She was an excellent, fast-paced speaker, and her talk really got me jazzed about the upcoming weekend! Even though I don’t have passes to the actual events, there’s plenty for me to do … ASPEN magazine,…
Soapbox: Raw Milk is Awesome for You
To: consumer@fda.gov To whom it may concern: I’d like to voice my support for Amish farmer Dan Allgyer, who was the subject of a recent FDA “bust.” I wholeheartedly disapprove of the FDA’s interference with voluntary, private contracts between farmers and private citizens. It is a waste of my tax dollars to “bust” farmers…
Austin Food & Wine Festival
… just another way Austin and Aspen are uniquely synchronized: The Austin Food & Wine Festival C3 Presents with Chef Tyson Cole, Chef Tim Love & Jesse Herman are creating the Austin Food & Wine Festival March 30-April 1, 2012 in locations throughout Austin. It is presenting sponsor Food & Wine (yep, the same as…
Austin: Giveaway! Tix to Advance Screening of Forks Over Knives
“The answer is so simple it’s criminal: people starting to take responsibility for their health.” This trailer is for FORKS OVER KNIVES, a film examining the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods*. *You know that…