May 24
We're haunted by the though of missing out. Are we? Are there wildly fertile and fecund pastures filled with top flight blogs that we are not grazing in? We've got about 5-10 favorite bloggers in town (favorites due to their profligacy) but we want more dammit. Please advise in comments below.
Should Rick Perry actually sign the Texas craft beer industry bills that are sitting on his desk right now, Jester King could benefit greatly.
The little brewery in southwest Austin has filed paperwork seeking brewpub status so they can sell beers directly to the public via their brick and mortar.
It's a longshot that Perry will actually sign the bills, so let's not go to getting too excited just yet.
Ronnie Crocker is providing a clarion voice on the entire affair http://blog.chron.com/beertx/2013/05/texas-house-approv
Maybe Robert Sietsema had a point?
When he was breathlessly proselytizing over the current state of affairs (http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/13) of New York City barbecue, maybe he had the inside scoop that Texas pit boss Aaron Franklin was heading to town?
The recent winner of the Texas Monthly Top 50 barbecue survey is rolling into Hill Country BBQ to take over the gasser for an Austin-style smoked meat pop up.
It happened once before, way back in November of 2011. We had coverage http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/11/1
all the fine points on how to gain access to the wingding right this way http://www.tmbbq.com/events/tmbbq-popup-nyc/
Will Austin's Taco Zine set the stage for the comeback of the zine form? Back in the 90s everybody had a zine. There were fried chicken zines, rollerderby zines, satanism zines, dockhand zines, kickboxing zines...you name it. If you had access to a Kinkos and a little creativity you probably had a zine.
Hey Hey Buffet and Twistworthy were two of our favorite Austin zines from days of yore.
Zines were the forebears to the blogs of today.
Now Austin has a brand new entrant in the faded category: Taco Zine. Print media. Quaint? We're withholding judgement til we can get our hands on one.
May 22
Tonight, Micklethwait Craft Meats will be at the Daniel Vaughn book signing party at BookPeople on North Lamar with a trailer load of free barbecue for attendees.
BookPeople plays hardball so be aware that if you bring a pirated copy of Prophets of Smoked Meat on their property, a few of their rangy book sellers will drag you out back and give you a good old fashioned Texas dry-gulching.
I've spent the last 15 years lining up secret cooking weapons across the USA. Bourbon barrel aged vanilla is my latest treasure.
At the dawn of my cooking career, I pulled down my grits and greens money via working as an overnight baker in Birmingham, Alabama.
Heartbreaking news from the world of high finance and micro-blogging. Tumblr has been sold by founder David Karp to the Yahoo.
Things will never be the same.
For the uninitiated, Tumblr is the wild, wild west of blogging. To some folks it's a photo-blogging platform, others use it as a diary a la Livejournal, and of course there are plenty people who use it to post lol cats and nudie pics from days of yore.
Scrumptious Chef shattered all of our previous site traffic records this past week. Hat tip to Texas Monthly, and their peripatetic barbecue work. Sounded like a sweet ride.
Over nearly 4 years this is the 1st week that only 2 topics dominated our top 5 most visited articles. Y'all love barbecue and hamburgers apparently.
Without further ado: Our weekly top 5.
Austin will be awakening from a drunken, craft beer-induced stupor come Monday morning wondering what in the hell just happened.
Nightly bacchanals have been thrown across the city as our town's bars all clamored for a finite drinking dollar. We celebrated, as is our custom, on the front porch.
Day 5 looks especially promising. Whip In, down on southbound I-35, is tapping a cask of Lupulus, a hoppy Belgian Tripel, from Independence Brewing at 420 pm. The man on the phone wasn't sure if it would be 3-4 dollars. Either way. 1950 Hwy 35 S
Grab a six pack of Fireman #4 for $6.99 at E.1st Grocery 1811 E. Cesar Chavez and hit Micklethwait Craft Meats for their 5 month anniversary party 1309 Rosewood Ave
Full Texas craft beer coverage http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/Austin-Cr
When we were conceptualizing this blog 5 years ago, we volleyed a lot of ideas back and forth. One of the earliest renditions, which got voted out, was a website devoted to crime and food. RL loved the idea, everybody else hated it.
It got voted down.
But every now and again, we'll author an article about the death and destruction that surrounds our fair city on a daily basis.
May 17
That was a wild one. This weekly round-up of the finest Austin food blogs has been a real pleasure. This week's edition could've been a top 20 as our town's writers swung into overdrive with dozens of high quality posts. Spring fever? We're not sure.
Heartbreaker. Tumblr Sold To Yahoo
rl said: change will come
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Best Hamburger In Austin Part One : The Dogwood Tuesday May 10th 2011
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Recipe: Vietnamese Bison Meatloaf
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Susan said: Home run with this one! Made it with home harvested Addax and the "I don't eat no stinking mea...
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Diego said: Ed's Place...commencing search. Thanks!
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