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Dining
October 10, 2002
Month, Week, Daze
Mark your calendar. October is the month for wining and dining.
Dining
July 17, 2008
The Dirt Doctor
How radio show host Howard Garrett pushed Dallas to the center of the organic gardening movement through passion, principle and molasses
News
August 24, 2006
High on the Hog
In Texas, shoot as many feral pigs as you like. Just don't let your dog bite them.
Blogs
May 12, 2009
And Now For The News(letter)
Haven't signed up for our weekly restaurant newsletter, Hot off the Grill? Well, do it--soon. You'll discover why our writer type person thinks the Texas Department of Agriculture is one really hip organization (something to do with heavy wine drinking) and some details about a new Hawaiian place.Be ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2009
A Little "Cheese" With Texas Wine
Last Wednesday, the folks at the Texas Department of Agriculture (an organization that definitely deserves a cooler name) took over Pappas Bros. Steakhouse for a big ol' photo shoot to promote the Go Texan Restaurant Program. Showcasing restaurants serving Texas wine, produce, shrimp and other ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Sips And (Sound)Bites And Almost Fist Fights
Back to school, with drinking--and threats--allowed: a panel discussion at the drinklocalwines.com conference.This past Saturday, a sold-out crowd gathered at Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts in North Dallas for the first-ever DrinkLocalWine.com Conference. Hosted by website founders Je ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2010
This Just In: This Years Plucking To Yield Peaches Aplenty
Early predictions for a record-setting peach crop seem to have been borne out by the harvest, the Texas Department of Agriculture reports. Spokesman Bryan Black says the state won't know for sure whether the statewide harvest will surpass previous tallies until statistics are officially compiled ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2010
From Massachusetts, One Historian's Dogged Pursuit of Dallas's Lost History Strikes Gold
Lewis Wickes Hine/Library of CongressThe original caption that accompanied this photo: "Group of workers at the Dallas Cotton Mill. The small boy helps his sister. Eternal vigilance will be needed to keep these little ones out of the mill. Location: Dallas, Texas."It's been a long while since we' ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
Big Tex Will Go All Texas With Wines
At State Fair
Kroger has pulled out as a wine garden sponsor at the State Fair of Texas, taking its West Coast wines with it. With the Texas Department of Agriculture left as sole sponsor of the wine tasting and teaching space, all of this year's featured wines will come from Texas. Jeff Siegel, who will ... More >>
Blogs
September 27, 2010
Want to Go Texan? Try Going Elsewhere.
It's Go Texan Restaurant Round-Up Week, but it may be difficult for Dallas residents to celebrate it. The program, sponsored by the Texas Department of Agriculture, is intended to showcase restaurants serving Texas-grown products. To participate, a restaurant must ante up a $25 annual fee an ... More >>
Blogs
September 29, 2010
Go Texan Winery Passport Program: Drink and Be Rewarded--But with What?
The other day on City of Ate, my colleague, Hanna Raskin, bemoaned the state of the Go Texan Restaurant Week, one of the numerous programs designed by the Texas Department of Agriculture to spur interest and business in our state's food industry. She noted that only seven restaurants in Big D sig ... More >>
Blogs
October 22, 2010
Go Texan Winery Passport Program:
The First Reward
A Texas wine compendium -- that's the first level of reward after visiting four wineries in the GO TEXAN Winery Passport Program, one of the programs sponsored by the Texas Department of Agriculture to spur interest in Texas-grown products, and hopefully, keep more consumer dollars in state. ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2010
Wake N' Bacon: Round Up a Mess of Feral Hogs and Collect a Pile of Cash from the State
A couple of months back, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples was in Arlington introducing Texas Department of Agriculture's "Get the Hog Outta Texas" campaign, intended to rid the state of our feral hog population. Said Staples, "Wild, feral hogs are causing tremendous damage across the l ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2011
Sommeliers Choose Their Favorite Texas Wines (So the TDA Doesn't Have To)
The Texas Department of Agriculture is compelled to promote all the permitted wineries in Texas, a mandate that doesn't resolve the thorny issue of how to address varying degrees of quality within the industry. But a recent event proposed by industry members has allowed the department to di ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
Texas Farmers Fed Up With Anti-Agriculture Attacks
Texas farmers worry non-farmers misunderstand them, but a new website designed to address the problem suggests the cultural confusion may cut both ways. The Texas Department of Agriculture this week unveiled its "Agriculture is Your Culture" campaign, an educational program centered on a website ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Peace, Love and Chicken-Fried Steak Day
God Bless the Texas Legislature. No amount of political discord will prevent them from the serious work for which the people of this great state sent them to Austin. And it has nothing to do with cuts to a cash-strapped educational system. No, ma'am. Our state government has bigger things to worry a ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2011
Ranchers Petition Gov. Perry For Hay Bale-Out After Historic Drought Stunts Texas Crop
Texas ranchers, bowed under the driest year in state history, are looking to Gov. Rick Perry for help. In an online petition, they're asking him to use the Texas National Guard and any state resources at his disposal to bring hay into the starving ranch country. Drought has withered much of t ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
$1.7 Million in State Grant Available for Your Snazzy Squash Marketing Campaign Idea
TexaSweet Citrus MarketingThe USDA has awarded the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) $1.7 million in federal funds for a Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). Through February 23 of this year, the TDA is accepting proposals for the funding of projects designed to raise awareness and ... More >>