http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm Food journalism out of Austin, Texas. en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 01:04:44 -0700 Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:00 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss russell@scrumptiouschef.com russell@scrumptiouschef.com russell@scrumptiouschef.com no http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/17/One-Year-Ago-Today-Murder-In-Williamson-County 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. Out Of The Past Fri, 17 May 2013 12:30:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/17/One-Year-Ago-Today-Murder-In-Williamson-County http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/10/2-Years-Ago-Today-Best-Hamburger-In-Austin-Part-One We began our epic quest to find the best hamburger in Austin 2 years ago today with a visit to West 6th Street. "I eat way too many burgers. I like the thin, flat griddled patties at Sandy's Custard. I like the charcoal burgers at Top Notch up on Burnet Road. I like the old timey burgers at Mike's Pub in downtown. I used to love to ride my bike down to Del Rio and eat wood fired burgers at TB's." more http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/5/10/Austin-Daily-Photo-Austins-Best-Burger-Tuesday-May-10th-2011?adminview=true Out Of The Past Fri, 10 May 2013 00:16:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/10/2-Years-Ago-Today-Best-Hamburger-In-Austin-Part-One http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/8/2-Years-Ago-Today-Recipe-Barbecue-Pork-Stuffed-Hush-Puppies 2 years ago today we published our recipe for Barbecue Pork Stuffed Hush Puppies: "In the fish camps of west Alabama, the good citizens eat like country kings with endless platters of corn meal crusted catfish being trotted out in little, rough-hewn buildings that dot the forests surrounding the Tombigbee River as it makes its way to the Port of Mobile. As you move eastward in the great state, the focus of eating shifts from catfish to barbecue. Particularly, the eating of the pig." more http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/5/8/Barbecue-Pork-Stuffed-Hush-Puppies?adminview=true Out Of The Past Wed, 08 May 2013 10:54:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/8/2-Years-Ago-Today-Recipe-Barbecue-Pork-Stuffed-Hush-Puppies http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/2/One-Year-Ago-Today-Sheps-Barbecue Has it really been a full year since we gassed up the Econoline and hit Shep's Barbecue for some of the best pork ribs in Texas? http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/5/2/Austin-Daily-Photo-Sheps-Barbecue-in-Palestine-Texas?adminview=true Barbecue Out Of The Past Thu, 02 May 2013 11:22:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/5/2/One-Year-Ago-Today-Sheps-Barbecue http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/4/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Alison-Cook-Stomps-A-Mudhole-In-Torchys-Tacos Has it really been a year since Alison Cook stomped a mudhole in Torchy's Taco...and walked it dry? http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/4/29/Pile-Driver-Alison-Cook-Takes-On-AustinBred-Torchys-Tacos-As-They-Open-Houston-Location?adminview=true Out Of The Past Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:31:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/4/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Alison-Cook-Stomps-A-Mudhole-In-Torchys-Tacos http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Yassine-Brothers-Austin-Texas-Nightclub-Scandal-Exploded Has it really been a year since the biggest nightclub scandal in the history of Austin, Texas broke wide open? All the details http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/3/27/BREAKING-NEWS-Mike-Yassine-Of-Yassine-Enterprises-In-Austin-Texas-Nightclub-Scandal?adminview=true Out Of The Past Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:46:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Yassine-Brothers-Austin-Texas-Nightclub-Scandal-Exploded http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/16/One-Year-Ago-Today-Stumptown-Coffee-Invaded-Austin-Texas That year went by fast. Our piece titled "Wall Street Big Boy TSG Consumer Partners And Lapdog Stumptown Coffee Roasters Invade Austin" right this way http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/3/16/Wall-Street-Big-Boy-TSG-Consumer-Partners-And-Lapdog-Stumptown-Coffee-Roasters-Invade-Austin Out Of The Past Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:45:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/16/One-Year-Ago-Today-Stumptown-Coffee-Invaded-Austin-Texas http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/5/Two-Years-Ago-Today-How-To-Make-A-Fried-Catfish-Po-Boy Every so often we rifle through our vast archive and glean an old article to resubmit to our readers. This is one of those times. With Lent in full swing y'all may be eating more fish than usual so this piece is particularly relevant. Two years ago today we authored an incredible take on the humble fried catfish po boy. Out Of The Past Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:46:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/3/5/Two-Years-Ago-Today-How-To-Make-A-Fried-Catfish-Po-Boy http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/2/10/Through-The-Past-Looking-At-The-Art-And-Science-Of-King-Ranch-Casserole Three years ago today I turned the world of Texas food letters upside down with this tome on King Ranch casserole. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2010/2/10/The-Rules-of-King-Ranch-Casserole?adminview=true The world has never been the same Out Of The Past Sun, 10 Feb 2013 15:11:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/2/10/Through-The-Past-Looking-At-The-Art-And-Science-Of-King-Ranch-Casserole http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/27/Two-Years-Ago-Today-How-To-Make-The-Best-Popcorn-On-Earth http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/1/27/A-Guide-To-Making-The-Best-Popcorn-You-Will-Ever-Put-In-Your-Mouth?adminview=true Buried deep, deep in our mammoth archive: Simply put, the best popcorn recipe ever written. Out Of The Past Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:17:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/27/Two-Years-Ago-Today-How-To-Make-The-Best-Popcorn-On-Earth http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/24/One-Year-Ago-Today-Stabbing-At-Mi-Palacio We can find no record of the disposition of the case where Fernando Posado-Mireles allegedly stabbed a worker at Mi Palacio. One minute you're sitting at the bar having a drink with a couple ladies, next minute you're in a fight for your life http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/1/24/Austin-Daily-PhotoStabbing-At-Mi-Palacio-Tex-Mex-Restaurant-On-Manor-Road?adminview=true click thru for photo of the perp, one scary looking man. Occasionally we stroll back through our archives to look at old articles from the past. Out Of The Past Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:03:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/24/One-Year-Ago-Today-Stabbing-At-Mi-Palacio http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/21/Three-Years-Ago-Today-The-Best-Lasagna-Recipe-We-Ever-Ate Back when I lived in Alabama I became friends with a girl whose grandmother, Agata was from Sicily. We'd ride out to the sleepy little town of Alabaster on Sunday afternoons where the granny would be busying herself in the kitchen-dealing out culinary trump cards of pure deliciousness. The piece, authored this very day 3 years ago http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2010/1/21/SlowDifficult-Recipes-Part-I-Agatas-Lasagna?adminview=true Occasionally we rifle through our archives via a site gadget and post a link to an old article like this one. Out Of The Past Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:32:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/21/Three-Years-Ago-Today-The-Best-Lasagna-Recipe-We-Ever-Ate http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/14/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Our-Austin-Daily-Photo-Featured-Chef-Alon-Shaya-Of-Domenica-in-New-Orleans The good chef Alon Shaya showing some serious love to a freshly decapitated heritage hog head. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/1/13/Austin-Daily-Photo-Chef-Alon-Shaya-of-Domenica-Thursday-January-13th-2011 Out Of The Past Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:10:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/14/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Our-Austin-Daily-Photo-Featured-Chef-Alon-Shaya-Of-Domenica-in-New-Orleans http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/12/One-Year-Ago-Today-The-Death-Of-Dublin-Dr-Pepper The years go faster and faster. It's unfathomable that we wrote the obituary for Dublin Dr Pepper one year ago today. From the piece: Let's pass the mic to Dublin Bottling Works vice president Jeff Kloster who had this to say ""We want to thank our many customers for their support of our family-owned business during the past 120 years, and we want them to know that Dr Pepper is still a big part of Dublin,we hope customers will continue to visit our town, the W.P. Kloster Museum and Old Doc's Soda Shop, where they can still enjoy Dr Pepper sweetened with cane sugar." Classy. The raw avarice of the Snapple Group brought its full bear-ish power down on a small Texas town. And Dr Pepper has not crossed our lips since. previous Out Of The Past http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/One-Year-Ago-Today Out Of The Past Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:26:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/12/One-Year-Ago-Today-The-Death-Of-Dublin-Dr-Pepper http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/10/One-Year-Ago-Today-Jake-Camozzi-Walks-Into-The-Best-Mexican-Restaurant-In-Austin-El-Taco-Rico Has it really been a year? We regularly pursue guest writers to step into the bright lights of penning editorial for the Scrumptious Chef site. Most decline as we can't match the $5 per word that's the going rate for Austin's top scribes. It's understandable. So we were beside ourselves when Jake Camozzi of http://leavemetheoink.wordpress.com/ one of the best charcuterie blogs in USA, agreed to pen a field report from El Taco Rico. Austin's chock a block with Mexican cooks but there can only be one queen. And her name is Yolanda Sanchez Cornejo. The article: http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/1/9/A-Neophyte-Gringo-Enters-Taco-Nirvana-By-Jake-Camozzi?adminview=true more appropriately the title of this article should've been Jake Camozzi Walks Underneath The Overhang Of The Laundrymat That Adjoins The Best Mexican Food Truck In Austin Texas. but that title would not fit. Out Of The Past Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:39:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/10/One-Year-Ago-Today-Jake-Camozzi-Walks-Into-The-Best-Mexican-Restaurant-In-Austin-El-Taco-Rico http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/8/One-Year-Ago-Today-Terlingua-Texas-Chili-Champ-Divulged-His-Ultimate-Secret-Weapon We take chili very,very seriously. So does Larry Walton; Terlingua Texas chili champion, and a man secure enough in his own cooking to offer his secret weapon to the population at large. One year ago today we did the big reveal. It's a stunner http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/1/8/Terlingua-Texas-Chili-Festival-Winner-Reveals-All-In-Recipe-Stunner-Mexene-Took-Him-To-The-Top?adminview=true Out Of The Past Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:15:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/8/One-Year-Ago-Today-Terlingua-Texas-Chili-Champ-Divulged-His-Ultimate-Secret-Weapon http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/3/One-Year-Ago-Today-Field-Report-From-Lucys-Fried-Chicken http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/1/3/Field-Report-Lucys-Fried-Chicken-New-Restaurant-From-Chef-James-Holmes-Of-Olivia?adminview=true We coaxed one of the top food writers in Austin into penning a restaurant review for the Scrumptious site. Behold the powerful pen of Travis Willman. https://twitter.com/RLReevesJr Out Of The Past Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:49:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/3/One-Year-Ago-Today-Field-Report-From-Lucys-Fried-Chicken http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/1/One-Year-Ago-Today-El-Taco-Rico-Featured-On-Anthony-Bourdains-No-Reservations Yolanda Sanchez Cornejo had her moment in the sun when Tony Bourdain hunkered down under the overhang at the laundrymat where her taco cart parks in the Montopolis neighborhood. We featured Cornejo in our Austin Daily Photo one year ago today. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/1/1/Austin-Daily-Photo-Yolanda-Sanchez-Cornejo-of-El-Taco-Rico-In-Montopolis-Neighborhood?adminview=true We eat a lot of Mexican food in Austin and this is the finest representation of the form we've found locally. get in touch http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/contact.cfm Out Of The Past Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:45:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2013/1/1/One-Year-Ago-Today-El-Taco-Rico-Featured-On-Anthony-Bourdains-No-Reservations http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Our-Austin-Daily-Photo-Featured-Tony-White-Of-Louie-Mueller-Barbecue As we prepared to close out 2011, one year ago, we featured Tony White, one of the top young talents in the central Texas barbecue world. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/29/Austin-Daily-Photo-Tony-White-Young-Gun-Pit-Boss-At-Louie-Mueller-Barbecue-In-Taylor-Texas?adminview=true We caught White out back behind Louie Mueller's in downtown Taylor Texas and he took a quick break from splitting a cord of oak to answer a few questions. Out Of The Past Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:37:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/29/One-Year-Ago-Today-Our-Austin-Daily-Photo-Featured-Tony-White-Of-Louie-Mueller-Barbecue http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/20/One-Year-Ago-Today-Davilas-Barbecue Our Austin Daily Photo one year ago today:Davila's Barbecue http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/20/Austin-Daily-Photo-Davilas-Barbecue-In-Seguin-Texas?adminview=true This is article number 1700. Thanks for bearing with us y'all. Out Of The Past Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:25:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/20/One-Year-Ago-Today-Davilas-Barbecue http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/19/One-Year-Ago-Today-Our-Recipe-For-Homemade-Mexican-Bacon We're having a good time rifling through our archives and sharing these ancient posts. Recipes for bacon are timeless and this Mexican pork belly treatment is solid gold. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/19/How-To-Make-Your-Own-Bacon-Our-Mexican-Pork-Belly-Project?adminview=true Out Of The Past Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:31:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/19/One-Year-Ago-Today-Our-Recipe-For-Homemade-Mexican-Bacon http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/17/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Elderly-Taquera I found Blanca in a parking lot in East Austin. She consented, warily, to having her photo taken http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2010/12/16/Austin-Daily-Photo-Blanca-of-El-Zunzal-Thursday-December-16th-2010?adminview=true Out Of The Past Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:11:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/17/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Elderly-Taquera http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/15/One-Year-Ago-Today-Louie-Mueller-Trained-Pit-Boss-Opens-BBQ-Joint-In-Japan Former Austinite and University Texas grad Craig White recently flung the doors of his Texas smokehouse; White Smoke, open in Tokyo Japan. We've been wanting to get over that way for awhile and it's looking like we've got a good excuse now. the piece http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/15/Trained-At-Louis-Mueller-Barbecue-In-Taylor-Texas-Craig-White-Opens-White-Smoke-In-Tokyo-Japan?adminview=true Out Of The Past Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:25:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/15/One-Year-Ago-Today-Louie-Mueller-Trained-Pit-Boss-Opens-BBQ-Joint-In-Japan http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/13/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Rio-Rita Two years ago today we took a look at Rio Rita's trusty steed, long since departed from the back parking lot. http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2010/12/13/Austin-Daily-Photo-Rio-Rita-Monday-December-13th-2010?adminview=true Out Of The Past Thu, 13 Dec 2012 23:38:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/13/Two-Years-Ago-Today-Rio-Rita http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/11/One-Year-Ago-Today-Veras-Backyard-BarBQue This feature has grown serious legs. We're enjoying mammoth site traffic growth this year and with that we've also seen a multitude of new readers who don't necessarily have the time to explore our 2,000 article archive. Just like one of our heroes; Robert Mitchum, we enjoy exploring our past so we can be better in the future. Here's our piece on the best barbacoa house in the state of Texas http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/11/Austin-Daily-Photo-Veras-Backyard-Barbecue-In-Brownsville-Texas?adminview=true Out Of The Past Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:14:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/11/One-Year-Ago-Today-Veras-Backyard-BarBQue http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/10/3-Years-Ago-Today-An-Essay-on-AustinTexas-FoodFrom-Sugars-to-Justines-and-Everything-in-Between We were just finding our footing. The Scrumptious Chef site was just a tyke 3 years ago but we were still confident enough in our abilities to post an essay on the Austin Texas food scene that was staggering in breadth and scope. It's here http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2009/12/10/An-Essay-on-AustinTexas-Food-in-2009From-Sugars-to-Justines-and-Everything-in-Between?adminview=true Out Of The Past Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:49:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/10/3-Years-Ago-Today-An-Essay-on-AustinTexas-FoodFrom-Sugars-to-Justines-and-Everything-in-Between http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/9/One-Year-Ago-Today-Birth-Notice-For-El-Tacorrido El Tacorrido has slowly become one of our favorite South Austin taco sources. One year ago we penned this birth notice http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2011/12/9/Austin-Daily-Photo-El-Tacorrido-From-The-Man-Behind-Takoba-Is-Open-For-Business-On-South-First-St?adminview=true Out Of The Past Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:45:00 -0700 http://www.scrumptiouschef.com/food/index.cfm/2012/12/9/One-Year-Ago-Today-Birth-Notice-For-El-Tacorrido