I bought this Fruit Cup while roaming through the Mexican Mercado in San Antonio and was truly impressed. Spicy Mexican Citrus Fruit Cup What a wonderful healthy treat I discovered in San Antonio. I am certain this refreshment has been around for ages in the Latino community, but this was my first experience eating […]
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The Mad Dogs Pub On the Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX The Mad Dogs Pub is one of the dozens of restaurants to choose from along the very busy riverwalk sidewalk. At first glance, it seems so themed, that it would fit right into Disney World, very British with a red phone booth and Union […]
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How we found Guajillo’s… an authentic Mexican restaurant, patronized mostly by a Spanish speaking clientele. When we walked in, we thought – “Now this place is the ‘Real Deal!’” As we left the San Antonio International Airport, my daughter said she was craving Mexican Food. she lives in Connecticut and NYC and for some unknown […]
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Smoke Shack BBQ – YUM! Owner and Pit Master Chris Conger started Smoke Shack in 2000 as the 3rd food truck owner in San Antonio. Now all of his smoked meat is cooked in a massive outdoor smoky BBQ pit at his complex of restaurant, bar, and meat market. The Smoke Shack’s house-made pork and […]
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Creole & Cajun Dishes… Recipes Where Yat, bro? (New Orleans lingo for hello!) The New Orleans Experience is approximately 25% about the Food, 25% about the Music, 25% about being in “NOLA’s Different World”, and 25% about the People found in “The Big Easy” The mix is both locals and tourist who are in NOLA […]
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Plums this Summer! By Cathy Addoms The most neglected of the amazing group of stone fruits is the diverse plum. It is a truly transformational fruit. Cook it and it changes to give us an amazing flavor burst however it is used.It grows in all but the most extreme climates. The varieties and length of […]
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Flambéed Bananas Foster – created at Brennan’s in 1951 The first Owen Brennan of the Irish clan landed in New Orleans in the 1840s, fleeing the potato famine and quickly found a comfortable life in the Irish community of New Orleans, in an area known to this day as “The Irish Channel”. Eventually, a […]
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Usually, a street food fair offers up samples of casual foods, like pizza, or pitas, or meat on a stick – but not in New Orleans. The French Quarter Festival in April, is a casual looking affair, but a person could eat at four or five of the greatest restaurants in the United States for […]
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New Orleans cooking is like jazz. The world is fascinated by the possibilities that can result when good jazz musicians sit together and “make music”. So it is with cooking. When people who care deeply about food use the ingredients and techniques of the entire history of New Orleans cooking, the possibilities are endless. That […]
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A view of Antoine’s front dining room. APRIL 1840 (An editorial excerpt Antoine’s Restaurant cookbook, © Roy F. Guste, Jr. fifth-generation proprietor of Antoine’s.) A young 16-year-old Antoine Alciatore opened a small pension on Rue St. Louis in New Orleans. Antoine had grown up in Marseilles, France, the son of a wool merchant, but at […]