By Amanda Hill If you’re the Thanksgiving cook of the house, you’ve probably already started preparing for, or at least thinking about, the holiday meal. With Thanksgiving just about a week away, Texas cooks are making their grocery lists and budgeting to feed their families and friends. According to Texas Farm Bureau’s Thanksgiving Meal Report, [...]
By Amanda Hill Food prices at Texas grocery stores appear to be holding steady, for now. Today, Texas Farm Bureau released its third quarter Grocery Price Watch survey, which monitors the cost of 16 staple food products across the Lone Star State. This latest survey shows Texans are paying slight more—72 cents—than they did in [...]
By Amanda Hill Imagine not being able to eat birthday cake at parties or cereal for breakfast. For people allergic to gluten–a condition known as celiac disease– living gluten free is a daily challenge. One in 133 Americans has celiac disease, according to the University of Maryland’s Center for Celiac Research. Gluten is found in grains [...]
By Amanda Hill Whether you live in Central Texas, Dallas, Lubbock or Houston, Texans could play the same weather forecast on repeat–"It's hot, it's dry and there's no end in sight." The real trouble is, the extreme heat has deeper consequences than just making almost 25 million people very sweaty. The current Texas drought is [...]
By Nathan Smith I was recently in Stephenville, Texas, eating at a hole-in-the-wall Mexican café with some friends, and we started talking about salsa. We debated what made a good salsa, how spicy, what color, consistency, etc. After agreeing to disagree, we settled on the fact that salsa was indeed a big part of Texican [...]
