Category: Main dish

An anniversary served with fried chicken

Sixty years ago, my dear grandparents were married. A few days before the wedding, my grandfather’s mother wrote a letter to my grandmother’s…

New York City is shaping up to be a terrific taco town. There are taco trucks scattered throughout the five boroughs, with one…

The small Texas town where I went to college had a surprising bounty of good restaurants despite its size. While I ate the…

I don’t have Italian blood flowing through my veins and I have to admit when I was little, my knowledge of that country’s…

I have been a longtime reader of Robb Walsh. Starting when I lived in Austin in the early ’90s and he was the…

One of the best things about traveling around the United States is the chance to chow on a region’s seafood specialty. For instance,…

“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken-fried steak.” —Larry McMurtry It’s been said there are three…

Tex-Mex is not Mexican food. That’s right, even though most of the restaurants you see all over Texas say that they’re Mexican, they’re…

I grew up in a frugal household. After witnessing Houston’s boom and bust in the 70’s, my parents were classic penny pinchers—they clipped…