Paula Lambert

Cheese: This Week In Dallas Dining

So cheese week happened. We've filled City of Ate with so much cheese news we looked like a full -on cheese blog. Even ol' Lee Harvey up in the header there is eating cheese. This week we ran a porny slide show devoted to some of the better cheese boards in Dallas instead of running a traditional r ... More >>

Cheese Rinds: When To Eat Them and When To Leave Them On The Board

Surely you've asked the question while eating funky cheeses with friends. "Are we supposed to eat the rind or not?" Unless you're surrounded by a bunch of cheese nerds, the answers that come back likely have as many holes as a cartoonish slice of Swiss. Even with the mild rind of a brie cheese you ... More >>

Cheese Week: An Interview with Paula Lambert about Bringing Fresh Mozzarella to Dallas

Cheese week in Dallas just wouldn't be a real cheese week if it didn't include the mozzarella queen-bee Paula Lambert. Several decades ago while studying Italian in Perugia, Italy, Lambert, who is originally from Fort Worth, fell in love with fresh mozzarella. While in Italy, she came up with the cr ... More >>

We Declare This Cheese Week! (That Means We're Going to Write a Bunch About Cheese. Stay Tuned.)

You remember burger week, right? The five-day-long tribute to bliss on a bun featured more burger bloggage than we've ever seen here on City of Ate -- and that's saying a lot considering how burger obsessed we are on a regular week. Life can't always be about burgers, though. So this week we're dev ... More >>

Eat This: Burrata with Garlic Bread at Carbone's

See also: *Carbone's: Jimmy's for the 1 Percent Burrata. Say it again. Roll the "Rs" this time. Giada-style. Ooh yeah, that's the stuff. Burrata is kind of like mozzarella, in the same way Andre is kind of like Moët & Chandon. Burrata is like mozzarella except that instead of being made by an an ... More >>

How Jimmy's Conquered Dallas

How did a humble neighborhood bodega become the city's sausage king? With a recipe restaurants couldn't resist.

Savor Dallas Rolls Into Town This Weekend

Sara KerensSavor Dallas 2010​If you've had the kids home this week during spring break, it's time to reward yourself with a little adult time, and by that we mean a few glasses of wine -- or more. You'll have all weekend to get your drink on at Savor Dallas, and here's a taste of what you'll ... More >>

Cheesemaker Leaves No Leaf Unturned

If you have any of these growing in your garden, give Paula Lambert a call.​Paula Lambert's on the hunt for hoja santa leaves. Lambert's Mozzarella Company has nearly run out of the leaves it uses to wrap its hoja santa goat cheese, a perennial award winner that took a second place prize in t ... More >>

Military Appreciation Cook-Off Needs More Participants, Natsumi Kitchen Opens at Farmers Market, Wine and Cheese Pairing Class, and More

​Just because summer is over doesn't mean barbecues and cookouts are no more until next summer. We mean, come on, this is Texas, any time is barbecue time. On October 2, The Dave Kenoly Show on CNN Radio 1190 AM, will be host its First Annual Military Appreciation Cook-Off to -- obviously -- ... More >>

Mozzarella Company Slices
Through Cheese Competition

A chile-filled winner from Mozzarella Company​Paula Lambert's Mozzarella Company had another strong showing at this year's American Cheese Society competition, the artisanal cheese industry's version of the Academy Awards. Nearly 1,500 cheeses were entered in the annual competition, which inc ... More >>

Burger Battle Round Two: Farnatchi vs. Square Burger

Square Burger​Earlier this year Toque brought you the throw-down between up-and-coming chain Five Guys Burger and the Oak Cliff standard, Wingfield's Breakfast and Burger. It was a messy proposition that actually took us to many burger fronts all in one day. We visited Smashburger and Mooyah, as t ... More >>

Five Menu Words You Can't Resist

Doesn't get much simpler, better than In-N-Out's menu​Restaurants can list their offerings as "chicken," "steak" and "pasta," or they can add a few descriptive adjectives to their menus and up their sales by 27 percent. Cornell University's Brian Wansink's findings were a hot topic when the New Y ... More >>

Neighbood Farmers Markets Still Unhappy With One Key Aspect of City's Latest Proposal

The Celebration Farmer's Market​The city has spent the better part of six months trying to come up with a proposal that'll allow neighborhood farmers markets to keep operating without cutting into the city-owned downtown market's business. The latest proposition goes in front of the city council's ... More >>

In Case You Missed It, Dallas Was the "City" in Last Night's Chefs vs. City on Food Network

​Dunno why Food Network never sent out a heads-up that last night's episode of Chefs vs. City -- a sorta-kinda culinary Amazing Race pitting Aaron Sanchez and Chris Cosentino against two comers -- took place in Dallas. Good thing the 6-year-old who lives in my house likes to wrap up his Sundays wi ... More >>

Uncorked And Cheesy

A Sneak Peek at Today's Neighborhood Farmers Market Council Briefing

​Schutze, who loves this subject, is out of town. Otherwise he'd be at Dallas City Hall at 2 today for the meeting of the council's Transpiration and Environment Committee, during which they'll discuss how to regulate neighborhood farmers markets. (Also on the agenda, landscaping N. Central Expres ... More >>

Something's Brewing

Beer and bratwurst. Beer and pizza. Beer and more beer. None of these "pairings" bring to mind white-linen service or cheese factory tours. But if tough economic times are causing some connoisseurs to reconsider more expensive options (re: wine), no matter. Beer pairings fit right in with non-tradi ... More >>

Cultured Bites

Prep for Puccini with Paula

Tom Leppert's Gettin' Down in the Southern Sector

Ooey, Gooey

Wherein Mark Stuertz Asks Paula Lambert: "What's Your Stinkiest Cheese?"

Sip Soiree

Some Good

AllGood Cafe lives up to its name only sometimes

Wining and Dining

Celebrate being eligible with the Single Gourmet

Burning Question

Best Urban Cheesemaker

The Mozzarella Co.

Grape Escape

Go ahead and stomp

Venetian Finds

Lazarus returns home with more than postcards

Her Whey

Paula Lambert parlays a love of cheese into fame and life among the jet set

Hash over

Bread and Circuses

When food legend Julia Child came to Texas spreading her gospel of good eating, no one was spared. Not even Big Tex

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