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Food Packaging: Less is more?

By Amanda Hill Grocery shopping for me is a precise event, one that includes a very specific list ordered by the routine route I take through the store each week. I rarely venture from my list and often throw the same products I buy week-in, week-out into the cart as a whiz through the aisles. [...]

Texans make no ‘misteak’

 By Nathan Smith Texans know a good steak when we find it, and last weekend I found more than one at the 8th Annual Texas Steak Cookoff in Hico. Don’t let the event’s name fool you, though. All the major food groups were represented: chicken, pork, crawfish, duck, dove, all manner of roughage and, of course, [...]

The Food Borne Identity

By Nathan Smith It’s midnight. You open the refrigerator door, surveying the late-night snack options. Hidden behind the plastic containers of leftovers, you retrieve the three-day-old Szechuan shrimp take-out. Hours later you realize that was a bad idea. There is nothing fun about being sick for 24 hours while you wait on your body to [...]

May 10, 2011|Categories: Healthy Eating|Tags: , , |5 Comments

A world without peanuts?

By Nathan Smith Baseball season is in full swing and with it comes one of my favorite aspects of the game–roasted peanuts!  I thoroughly enjoy sitting in the Ballpark in Arlington watching the Rangers throw down on the Yankees, but what is any baseball game without this major league snack? The Lone Star State is the [...]

April 26, 2011|Categories: Specialty Crops, Texas Products|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

Big Red Cupcakes

By Kelly Bogard Big Red was created in my hometown of Waco in 1937.  We Wacoans are proud of our Big Red, and we can go through barrels of it during a hot Texas summer. As a kid, I remember helping my grandma make Big Red Ice Cream, my granddaddy's favorite. Now that I have my own daughter, I had an idea to [...]

April 21, 2011|Categories: Desserts, Holiday Treats, Recipes|Tags: , , |3 Comments