Blogs: Flavor

By Anne Vanzant On Tuesday evening, the newly restored ballroom at Hyatt Regency morphed into a martini mecca courtesy of the fourth annual RiverTini Pour-Off, a San Antonio River Foundation fundraiser intended to raise money for the beautification of the San Antonio River as a benefit to the community. The funds will be utilized...
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It’s only been 3-months since Chris Hill threw open the doors of his newly designed Esquire Tavern. In celebration, he (along with bar manager Jeret Pena and chef Brooke Smith) decided to join forces with TipsyTexan.com blogger David Alan to bring San Antonio native Tito Beveridge (Tito’s Handmade Vodka) back to town. The idea...
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Times are tough … and a lot of us can’t afford to let food go to waste. What to do with those random veggies hanging out in the crisper drawer? You know, the lone potato rolling amongst the limp celery and that bag with two scrawny carrots in it. The answer – soup. As...
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Here we go again with the weather. Just when I feel like I’m behind on gearing up for summer, I’m digging my sweater out of the back of the closet. By this time of year, most people’s gardens are in full swing and luckily the recent temperature dip wasn’t severe enough to tamper with...
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A recent lunch at my son’s school has my ever-weakening faith in the USDA at an all-time low. Seeing the 5-gallon bucket of waste milk always makes me sick. I come from the era where kids were still taught to finish their food, to not waste and not take more than you knew you...
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When you are accustomed to good food done right, it only raises your expectations at eating establishments.
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From time to time, we experience the way that smells can evoke memories, even emotions. Perhaps it’s the familiarity of someone’s cologne, laundry detergent or hair product – you catch a whiff as someone passes by, reminding you of another time and place. Or the scent of a long-gone lover clinging to your pillow...
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Although Viagra is a recent savior to modern man’s penis, humanity has been looking for a lift for thousands of years. But with no Walgreen’s on every fucking corner, what the hell did they do? Eat. Food was their sustenance and their medicine. One of the most commonly known aphrodisiacs today, chocolate, is believed...
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Foodways Texas, after a successful and continuing membership drive, is now about to present its first public event, a symposium centered on the Texas Gulf Coast, a region in need of some strokes after the BP disaster.
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Beer tasters don’t spit, but parts of beer articles do occasionally end up on the cutting room floor as a result of writerly exuberance. Here then are the three beers that failed to make the editorial cut from the recent Omniboire beer tasting: With yet another stylistic turn, our #6 beer [in last week's...
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So we’re a few weeks in on those new years resolutions now and I can only speculate as to how many of us have our list topped with “Eat healthier in 2011!” So I pose the question … are you sick of salads yet? Over time, I find even the best salads get monotonous....
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The first annual Tamales at Pearl celebration will take place on Saturday, December 11 from noon to seven. Tamales! Musica! Live Dancers! Cerveza! Anticuchos! Empanadas!...y más will all be on parade. And, guys and girls, admission is FREE! OK, enough exclamation points.
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