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Speaking of Ballparks and Getting the Munchies, A Look at the Rangers' New World Series Menu

Sam Merten​Texas Rangers spokesman John Blake just sent word: For World Series Games Three and Four at the Ballpark in Arlington -- oh, right, Game Five too, fingers crossed -- the team's done beefed up (heh) its sports menu. Also: The team's added more places to buy beer in the park, which, a ... More >>

Hash Over: Taste of Greenville Avenue, Bobby Flay Book Signing, Wine Dinners, and Fall Harvest Stew Festival

We've got a week's worth of food, festivals and fun for you, plus we'll tell you where you can meet a celebrity chef today. You'll have to get in line behind us, of course, but we'll save you a spot. We're nice like that. ​Let's start first with a TOGA party. TOGA! TOGA! No, we're not gettin ... More >>

Sneaky Meat: Survey Finds Chefs Sometimes Sabotage Vegan Dishes

Careful, chefs. You might find yourself against this wall.​Food Network magazine this week released the no doubt intentionally provocative results of an anonymous chef survey, in which chefs copped to stealing ideas, showing up for work sick, recycling bread and sabotaging orders that were sen ... More >>

Green House Truck Nominated
As One of America's Favorite Food Trucks

​Food trucks, or their paucity, in Dallas are hot. The topic has been covered by local food media outlets, including City of Ate. One food truck has done more to highlight residents' desire for mobile food vendors. That food truck, Green House Truck, has been nominated as one of America's favorite ... More >>

Food Network Hops on the Taco Trend

​This morning the Food Network posted a simple and absurd tweet on its Twitter stream (@FoodNetwork): "What taco is tops?" This tweet can be construed as an assumption that the fascination with tacos is a fleeting trend. Furthermore, the update is clearly tied to their new show, The Great Food ... More >>

Part 2: Matthew McCallister on Dreams, Hard Work and the Dangers of Hot Caramel

Photo by Robert Bostick​Yesterday, we profiled the fast-rising Matthew McCallister, executive chef at Stephan Pyles. In part two of our three-part series, today we pose a few questions to McCallister. Tune in tomorrow as McCallister demonstrates one of his recipes for City of Aters. CofA: Wh ... More >>

10 Food Trends Making Shame Spirals Worse

Grilled Cheese, is no longer just cheese.​Maybe we can all come together and agree on something: The foods in this list were already delicious, horrifyingly so, but have recently become gourmet'd to some DEFCON- one level of decadence. You can rarely order a simple cheddar-based grilled cheese or ... More >>

Mystery Meat: What's Food Network Saying About Dallas Now?

​The rap on Dallas is that it's a meat and potatoes town, a reputation that seems likely to be cemented by a new Food Network show. The Food Network will be in Dallas next month to film Meat and Potatoes, a new show slated for the cable network's fall schedule. A Food Network spokesperson wou ... More >>

Kent Rathbun Chips in With a Recipe for a Cheesy Appetizer

Photos by Sarah Johnson ​Maytag Blue Cheese Chips Demonstrated by Chef Kent Rathbun of Jasper's Does the name Kent Rathbun ring a bell? You may know him from the many Dallas restaurants he owns and operates like Jasper's, Abacus and Rathbun's Blue Plate Kitchen. Before gracing us with his presen ... More >>

The Battle of the Chefs Challenge

Spike Johnson​In the great challenge tradition set to flying knives on the Food Network, Blythe Beck, of Central 214 (whom we gave Best Use of Butter and Cream Award in 2009)  and the Oxygen Network's The Naughty Kitchen, was host chef to the Battle of the Chefs Challenge at the Frontiers of ... More >>

On The Range: Seafood Paella

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.There's no doubt that the Spanish are passionate about paella. Paella is, of course, the painstaking meat, rice and vegetable dish traditionally cooked in (and often eaten from) a large, shallow pan. However, early ... More >>

Top 10 Most Important Influences On Food In Our Lifetimes

​Consequences are near impossible to predict and rather difficult to judge, even in hindsight. For example, the Baby Boom generation, so interested in besting their elders in freedom of thought, turned into the kind of wimp-ass parents who dumb down education so every kid could pass. And you coul ... More >>

Why Do We Love Oprah? Because We Also Love McDonald's

​I've spent some effort avoiding this day, hoping it would never, ever come. But all of my valiant, last ditch efforts--a quick search for an apartment in Allen, begging to work from a Starbucks in Oklahoma City for a day or two--fell through.Now I'm trapped. Although I've spent much of my adult l ... More >>

On The Range: Tostadas

​On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items.How do you describe a tostada? As with many Latin dishes, it often depends on what side of the border you come from. In Texas, or most of the other Estados Unidos, the tostada ("toasted") is most familiar in its cla ... More >>

Watch, Read, Cook: What's New On The Tube And In Print

As the food media world warms up for its busiest time of year, a trickle of new releases in television and print are whetting our appetites for the deluge to come. Here are a few of our favorite picks: Apparently, Brian Boitano will show us how to make Froot Loops.​WWBBD? The Food Network's new ... More >>

This Could Be Your Kitchen

The Food Shows You Should Be Watching

The Paulas and the Bobbys and the (ugh) Rachaels better watch their beaters. A new crop of food stars are shaking up the old "if you cook it, they will watch" formula with new concepts, insider tips and sheer, unadulterated gluttony. Oh, and one of these up-and-comers is even giving that blond guy ... More >>

Skimming The Scum

Unfair Park's Robert Wilonsky has been tracking Bob's--of steak & chophouse fame--many difficulties, updating the story again today (read it here). Over at SideDish, Nancy Nichols keeps up with the ne'erdowellness of another restaurant group (as you can see here).Nancy's story, as she pursues it ... More >>

Top 10 Greatest Cooking Shows Ever

Programs on Food Network and Bravo and such have become a kind of obsession with some folks. But as current hot shows lose their sizzle and new stars emerge, will we remember Throwdown, Top Chef and the like?Certain shows remain in our thoughts, however, popping to mind at odd moments. Others influe ... More >>

On The Range: Guacamole

On The Range is a weekly exploration of the history and lore of Texas menu items. Jon Sullivan"Was there ever a fruit as sensual as the avocado? So rough-hewn, dare-to-touch-me masculine on the outside, so yielding, inviting, soft spring green and feminine inside?...It's no wonder that this perf ... More >>

Keeping Score

Zorilla, via FlickrSix months (plus a couple) into City of Ate and I'm still trying to figure out blogging. In the past couple of months, we've also added twitter--fortunately handed to someone else, since my response to the first mention of it was along the lines of 'I've read about it in the paper ... More >>

Thinkin' 'Bout Food

Kitchen Wasteland

Just how many food shows do we need hanging out in and around Dallas, distracting our chefs and disrupting meals?Oxygen will be shooting the Naughty Kitchen at Central 214 for the next few months. The contest winner with the hair was back in the area--this time in Cowtown. A mom from Keller is vying ... More >>

Popular For Being Popular

Kalandrakas via FlicrPlease forgive the rambling nature of this rant. It's Monday, there's no sign of the "Knockers" post due at 11 a.m., nor of some other stuff. I have a nice sunburn from the FC Dallas game. And on Saturday afternoon I waited in a 30 minute line, just so I could order one of Twist ... More >>

Sloppy Seconds: Tabletop Showdown

Nothing spices up a kitchen like the element of competition -- as even a casual Food Network viewer could tell you. Describing a recipe for the camera? Not exciting. Breathily narrating your dish as you race to beat the clock and five other chefs? There's good eating in that.So at the end of a week ... More >>

10 Questions: Melissa D'Arabian, Food Network Contestant

When contestants for the upcoming series of The Next Food Network Star were announced, she was labeled the 'stay at home mom.' Indeed, the Keller resident tends to four young children--which, of course, means cooking three meals a day, just about every day of the week. Producers for the show ap ... More >>

Le Cordon Bleu Announces First Graduating Class

Wonder if anyone has ever lost an eye to one of these things on its descent? Le Cordon Bleu Institute of Culinary Arts Dallas announced its first ever graduating class yesterday, so con-grad-ulations (sorry) are in order to the newest crop of future Food Network stars,,,and corporate sous chef ... More >>

10 Questions: Tyler Florence

After 14 years on the Food Network and a small shelf full of cookbooks bearing his name, Florence is a true celebrity chef. But now he makes baby food. Yes, the man People called the "sexiest chef alive," host of Food 911, How to Boil Water and now Tyler's Ultimate recently started a line of or ... More >>

Lost In Translation

One thing you will never see on City of Ate or in Observer reviews--except perhaps in mocking form--is the word 'foodie.' In part, this is personal preference. The cute diminutive nickname just sounds so damn childish. But my distaste for the term stems from something decidedly generational (and alm ... More >>

Food For Thought? Nah.

Lisa Garza, You Got Screwed. But At Least You're Going to Vegas.

Lisa Garza Requests the Pleasure of Your Company Sunday Night

Lisa Garza, Who Might Be The Next Food Network Star, is on Fire

Review: The Food, Not the Setting, Impresses at Scene Restaurant & Lounge

"Food Network Doesn't Have a News Show." But a Dallas Woman Could Be Its Next "Star."

I Keep Saying We Need to Eat at Suze More Often ...

The Cooking World is Tré's Oyster

Sweet Chile o' Yours

Oldtown gets its taste buds peppered and cranked

An Iron Chef Moves to the Stoneleigh

Everyday Angel

Cooking With Class

Soon, Dallas students can learn the restaurant biz in school

Here to Stay

With a tour, a Food Network show and an upcoming album, Lisa Loeb enjoys the spotlight. Again.

Cam Bam

Do chefs watch cooking shows?

Naked Ambition

Jamie Oliver shows his twist at Central Market

Lovin' in the Oven

Tanya Holland puts soul into her cooking at Central Market

Cook Out

Do chefs really prepare your meals?

Celebrity du Jour

Big-name chefs saturate an uncertain market

Best Place to Buy Kitchen Gadgets as Seen on TV

Sur La Table

Happy Hours

Expect palete fatigue at The Dallas Morning News Wine and Food Festival