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Agriculture Sector

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    How Will Texas' Cattle Crisis and Rising Beef Prices Test Dallas' Love for Steak?

    This January, the Houston Press ran a prophetic story about last summer's drought and its coming effects on beef prices. Katherine Shilcutt's story, like our own Brantley Hargrove's story did a few months before, described Texas ranchers who sold off their cattle when the costs associated with raisi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Great Texas Drought of 2011 Was the Costliest Ever

    It was clear when A&M's livestock economist said the drought had an agricultural toll of $5.2 billion back in August -- which didn't even really mark the nadir of the heatwave -- that we hadn't seen the worst this drought could do. Now we know: $7.62 billion in agricultural losses ... in a single y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2011

    Franconia Taps Distributor to Help its March Toward Craft-Brew World Domination

    ​Dennis Wehrmann, brewmaster at McKinney's 2011 Best of Dallas®-winning Franconia Brewing Company, hasn't given up on bottling. His targeted late-summer or early-fall starting time passed, but bottling is still in the works for the company, he says. And with the decision to hand distribution ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    What Happens to the World's Unused Pumpkins?

    Dallas Arboretum​Sunday evening, just hours until Halloween, there were still hundreds of un-sold pumpkins at a local farmers market. It raised the question -- what happens to all the left-behind gourds? Do the extras go to the pie factory? Or are they all just tossed in the dump? Turns out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2011

    A Spoonful Of Honey May Not Keep Your Allergies Down, But It's Tasty Enough To Try

    ​I've been eying the weather channel a lot lately. Not for the temperature, but for the pollen count, which apparently will begin an upward march as soon as the mercury begins to wane and the fall allergy season kicks off. Allergies aren't good for food critics, as you might have heard. I've ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    A Second (But Still Shitty) Life for Bluefin Tuna, the 600-Pound Chicken of the Sea

    FlickrBluefin: It's what's for dinner, presuming you have flexible food morals.​Wednesday is Arts and Life and Style Day at the nation's newspapers, which, believe it or not, still contain no small amount of interesting food news. Our Wednesday Feed highlights the best of it. Tim Carman at Th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 5, 2011

    Egging the Question

    FlickrBluefin: It's what's for dinner, presuming you have flexible food morals.​Wednesday is Arts and Life and Style Day at the nation's newspapers, which, believe it or not, still contain no small amount of interesting food news. Our Wednesday Feed highlights the best of it. Tim Carman at Th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    Shop a Century of History

    FlickrBluefin: It's what's for dinner, presuming you have flexible food morals.​Wednesday is Arts and Life and Style Day at the nation's newspapers, which, believe it or not, still contain no small amount of interesting food news. Our Wednesday Feed highlights the best of it. Tim Carman at Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Oyster Appellations Return to the Gulf Coast

    More than a century ago, there wasn't any such thing as a "gulf oyster." Oysters were offered under specific place names -- a tradition revived this weekend at the first Foodways Texas symposium in Galveston. Jenny Wang​The program wasn't devoted entirely to oysters: Kelly Yandell, one of a f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Jack Frost Jacked with Local Farmers, But Not Too Much

    ​While most of us may have celebrated those snow days earlier this month, you can bet the local farmers weren't making snow-angels. Because it undoubtedly affected crops, City of Ate set out to discover how badly those February-frosts tinged the local leafage -- specifically the farmers contributi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2010

    Half-Shell Fans Beware, the Future
    For Gulf Oysters is Murky

    ​A waiter at City Diner and Oyster Bar in Corpus Christi broke the appalling news to my wife, in-laws and me last weekend as we made a trip to the coast: No fresh Texas oysters on the half-shell. Not one. Sorry, he said. Dealer prices a week into the start of Texas' oyster harvest from public leas ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Scarrots Are Real. Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

    ​Scarrots. Apparently, they're not a joke. I heard of them recently and thought that my friend was just making up some cutesy word for carrots. But, Scarrots really exist. Turns out, "A Bunch of Carrot Farmers" (led by Bolthouse Farms) are trying to trick kids into eating carrots this Hallowee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    The Key to Good Cheese? You Gotta Love Your Goats. (No. Not That Way.)

    Hanna RaskinHow could you not love a face like this?​ When a dish transcends its components, its circumstances and a critic's expectations, it's almost invariably described as "made with love." The treacly sentiment may or may not hold true in the kitchen, but a recent tour of goat dairies in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 4, 2009

    ComeHome

    Hanna RaskinHow could you not love a face like this?​ When a dish transcends its components, its circumstances and a critic's expectations, it's almost invariably described as "made with love." The treacly sentiment may or may not hold true in the kitchen, but a recent tour of goat dairies in ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    Farm to Market

    North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you

  • Dining

    February 12, 2009

    Oyster Species Guide

    North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you

  • Calendar

    November 13, 2008

    Flat Broke

    North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008
  • Calendar

    May 24, 2007

    Latin Beat

    North Haven Gardens gets fresh with you

  • Music

    May 3, 2007

    Damien Rice

    Monday, May 7, at the Majestic Theater

  • Calendar

    January 25, 2007

    The Cows Come Home

    Monday, May 7, at the Majestic Theater

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2006

    Fish Story

    The Modern screens an eye-opening Nightmare

  • Best of Dallas

    October 14, 2004

    Best Florist

    Dr Delphinium Designs & Events

  • Dining

    January 15, 2004

    Kobe Spam?

    The steak house is going Wagyu

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Corraled

    The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Buzz

    Java jive

  • Best of Dallas

    September 21, 2000

    Best hamburger (tie)

    Angry Dog & Jake's Old Fashioned Burgers and Beer

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Fooling with Mother Nature

    Plano-based Frito-Lay finds it's better to be safe than sorry with genetically modified foods

  • News

    January 13, 2000

    Bay botch

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

  • News

    July 30, 1998

    Letters

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

  • News

    June 18, 1998

    Letters

    Oysterman Joe Nelson says pollution is slowly killing Galveston Bay. Is anyone listening?

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