The Hard Rock Café is bribing me to tell you about its promotional pricing next Monday. To make the point that the restaurant at 2211 N. Houston St. is celebrating its chain-wide anniversary by charging circa-1971 prices for select burgers, sandwiches and desserts, a publicity whiz sent me two not-too-crisp…

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 the area demonstrated how much unconditional affection has contributed to…

The hardest question I’ve been asked since I moved here last week has come from friends back in North Carolina: What’s Dallas like? Having seen little of the city beyond my apartment, my office and Ikea, I honestly had no idea. So Friday I decided to get educated by pedaling…

Rebecca Sharpless was at Farmers Branch Historical Park last night ostensibly to hold forth on “Southern women’s cooking accomplishments,” but the TCU professor lingered longest on a food that few Southerners of either gender are still making from scratch.”Do any of you fry chicken anymore?,” Sharpless asked the two dozen…

Hi, I’m Hanna, and I’ll be your restaurant critic.Sorry to have kept you waiting. I got caught in the weeds back in Asheville, where I was obligated to file a few last barbecue columns and produce a bike fashion show before I could head down the mountain.But you’re not interested…