AltWeeklies Wire
Casual Champagne and Cognac Cocktailsnew
Champagne and cognac are dress-up drinks in most people's minds. But snifters and smoking jackets are not always required to enjoy brandies and sparkling wines. There are cocktails that may even benefit from using the more generic product.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-22-2011 |
Food+Drink
Winter Squash for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Pienew
Everything you need to know about cooking with winter squash, including a recipe for chocolate pumpkin pie.
Weekly Alibi |
Ari LeVaux |
12-22-2011 |
Food+Drink
Area Distilleries Putting Texas Flavors on the Mapnew
When President Jimmy Carter made home brewing legal in 1978 the newly legitimated hobby spawned fledgling brewmasters across the country.
San Antonio Current |
SCOTT ANDREWS |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Two Current Critics Choose Their Favorite Drinking Songsnew
There’s a whole cannon of Holiday’s material we could choose from, but it’s her rendition of the standard “One More For My Baby (And One More For the Road)” that’s top shelf, an aching last-call confession to her bartender on a love affair gone awry
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker and J.D. Swerzenski |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Bands Are Not the Only Thing on Tour at Ten Elevennew
Ten Eleven is well known for putting on some of the best indie/hardcore/unclassifiable shows in SA, but lately the Ave. B venue has been courting a different crowd: beer aficionados.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Getting Dragged into Tourist Row? San Antonio's Hidden Drinking Spots to Ease the Painnew
As San Antonio denizens, we all live in fear of it. It usually happens around the holidays, or in the dastardly drought that is summer. We avoid it. But it’s always there, waiting: the Alamo.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol, Scott Andrews, Chuck Kerr, Bryan Rindfuss, Adam Villela Coronado and Veronica Salinas |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Brave Resident Tasters Put Several Especial Bottles to the Testnew
'Tis the season when booze meets billboards all over town and flossy liquor images fill the pages of consumer magazines.
San Antonio Current |
Ron Bechtol |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
What SA’s Bartenders (Slash Therapists, BFFs, Secret Crushes) Wish You Knewnew
Four Aggie fans are sitting in a bar, sipping beers, and spending an afternoon being ornery over a football game against their most bitter rivals, the Longhorns.
San Antonio Current |
Adam Villela Coronado |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Micro- to Middle-Brew Pubs Kicking Up Dust Need to Cling to that Vision Thingnew
Those who have caught the fever for brewing beer often become like little kids picking what they want to be when they grow up. And like most youngsters who want to be firefighters, ballerinas, astronauts, or benevolent dictators, home brewers aren’t quite sure what it takes to achieve the dream until they are in deep.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
One Part Perspiration, One Part Experimentation = Beers that Hit, Miss, Bewitchnew
It's not unusual for beginner home brewers to make a few mistakes even when playing it safe, but experienced brew-kettle commandos intentionally pushing the envelope have their own tales of woe and victory to share, too.
San Antonio Current |
Travis E. Poling |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
Allergen-Safe Soup From Holiday Leftoversnew
Soups are forgiving vessels for holiday leftovers. You can add or subtract vegetables and spices, use broth or water and decide the amount of meat to include.
INDY Week |
Joyce Clark Hicks |
12-15-2011 |
Food+Drink
The Once-Blighted American Chestnut Makes a Comebacknew
Once a stately member of the Eastern hardwood forest ecosystem, up to 4 billion American chestnut trees fell victim to a blight during the 1930s and 1940s, virtually scouring the species from its native habitat.
Boise Weekly |
Guy Hand |
12-14-2011 |
Food+Drink
Eating Locally — Still Goodnew
The five biggest myths people use to discredit the local-food movement ... and why they're wrong.
Gambit |
Jill Richardson |
12-12-2011 |
Food+Drink
Beer Buzz: Million Dollar Brewskinew
Sun King unveils a beer inspired by a musical, Bier collects for Gleaners and Toys for Tots, and End of the Line opens in Fountain Square.
NUVO |
Rita Kohn |
12-12-2011 |
Food+Drink
Donatello's: Thick, Soggy, Overdonenew
The food seemed a bit of an afterthought at Donatello's, a new Carmel Italian restaurant that fails to pay even lip service to modern Italian gastronomy.
NUVO |
Neil Charles |
12-08-2011 |
Food+Drink
