Austin360 Food/Drink Review: 5.15.2013

Catch up on some of our best recent food reporting in Austin360:

• Lucinda Hutson shares lifelong love of tequila and Mexico in new book: Hutson talks tequila and shares some recipes from her new book, “Viva Tequila!: Cocktails, Cooking, and Other Agave Adventures.” (And check out the video!)
  
  
• Smooth operators: 10 soft-serve spots around Austin: When faced with a Texas summer, where should you go in Austin to get your soft serve fix? We’ve got some answers 
  
  
• Bees are the buzz at The W Hotel: The rooftop of The W Hotel in downtown Austin is host to 10 beehives. The honey these bees produce will be used in the hotel’s bar and restaurant in specialty cocktails, desserts and appetizers.
  
  
• Food Matters: BBQ bible from Texas Monthly’s BBQ editor, Epic meat bars, plus a recipe from Charleston’s Lee brothers
  
  
• High school culinary students convene for conference: More than 500 high school students in Central Texas enrolled in culinary arts programs attended a Culinary Arts Career Conference at Palmer Events Center.
  

• Austin’s Holy Smokers compete on ‘Chopped,’ launch new barbecue sauce
  
  
• Openings and Closings report: Quickie Pickie opens on East 11th; Houndstooth opens downtown, and more

Austin360 Food Review: 5.8.2013

Catch up on some of our best recent food reporting in Austin360:

• Review: Smoke and sophistication at Freedman’s, a barbecue spot with a swankier approach
  
  
• Culinary craftsmen: Salt & Time owners practice classic methods and source quality meats: A look inside the new brick-and-mortar of this butcher/dining spot in East Austin.
  
  
• Austin Food & Wine Fest kicks off at Butler Park: A look at this year’s festival, which moved from Auditorium Shores and received positive reviews for the change
  
  
• Waffled hash browns anyone? Using a waffle maker for more than just breakfast and more than just waffles
  
  
• Ask Addie: What to do with kasu, plus recipes for Austin-favorite Chi’lantro bulgogi burger and Central Market remoulade

Austin360 Food Review: 4.23.2013

Catch up on some of the best recent food reporting in Austin360:

• Review: Sway on South First elevates the Thai experience in Austin
  
  
• Where to get oysters in Austin? 12 spots for decadence on the half-shell
  
  
• Food matters: Texas wines available on Amazon and a local recipe for sweet potato and swiss chard enchiladas
  
  
• A visit to the Adams Extract company in Gonzalez, where they fill those little red-capped bottles of vanilla
  
  
• Foodie fundraisers seek to help the residents of West, Texas after a deadly fertilizer plant explosion
  
  
• Yumm Sauce, a hummus-like condiment, is spreading beyond regional audience in Oregon
  
  
• Celebrate spring with four courses of fresh recipes 

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