This post is the final one in a series of entries dedicated to the Austin Food Blogger Alliance City Guide 2012, aimed at helping visitors and newcomers sort out the city’s most notable food establishments. In the past ten years or so, East Austin has changed a lot. As real estate prices shot up, the [...]
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Austin City Guide: East Austin Eats
Posted by boxingoctopus on March 5, 2012
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2012/03/05/austin-city-guide-east-austin-eats/
Austin City Guide: Best Non-Alcoholic Drinks
This post is the third in a series of entries dedicated to the Austin Food Blogger Alliance City Guide 2012, aimed at helping visitors and newcomers sort out the city’s most notable food establishments. Over the course of the next week, I’ll be covering a broad array of topics dedicated to the best places to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on March 4, 2012
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/austin-city-guide-best-non-alcoholic-drinks/
Austin City Guide: The 5 Best Patios
This post is the second in a series of entries dedicated to the Austin Food Blogger Alliance City Guide 2012, aimed at helping visitors and newcomers sort out the city’s most notable food establishments. Over the course of the next week, I’ll be covering a broad array of topics dedicated to the best places to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on March 1, 2012
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/austin-city-guide-the-5-best-patios/
Jack Allen’s Kitchen
I don’t usually do restaurant reviews here, but I’m making an exception for my newest obsession, Jack Allen’s Kitchen. (Don’t worry, Olivia, Contigo, and La Condesa. I still love you, too.) When my dissertation chair, the elitistacademic, invited me to lunch at JAK, she pitched it as “serious farm-to-table fare.” I usually don’t take much [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 17, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/jack-allens-kitchen/
Franklin BBQ is a class issue
I’ve been thinking about barbecue for a long time now. Not only because I worked at the Salt Lick in high school, but also because of my participation in this project. That book contains an essay by me called “The Feminine Mesquite,” in which I consider the feminist implications of barbecue (there are some! Trust [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on May 2, 2011
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/franklin-bbq-is-a-class-issue/
Gratitude
Last Sunday, my family and close friends gathered at Max’s Wine Dive to celebrate my 38th birthday. I had gone there with Layne and Crystal a few weeks back for drinks and for an informal book-group-type thing and really liked it (the cheese toast is full of YUM and of course, when I tried to [...]
Posted by boxingoctopus on October 9, 2010
http://boxingoctopus.wordpress.com/2010/10/09/gratitude/
