Food & Drink

At a private awards ceremony held at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting and sponsored by the neuroscience journal I edited several years ago, a doctor lifted his glass of malbec. “Better living through chemicals!” he toasted. That’s exactly what Ann Tuennerman has in mind when her Tales of the…

You know the feeling you get when you read a music review, and the critic is all “You gotta hear this one song, it’ll change your life, I swear!” and then you go buy the CD and it sucks and you feel like a chump? I had that feeling at…

In this week’s three-course meal, we’re liquefying your reading diet with an interview with Sly Cosmopoulos, a cocktail consultant for a large liquor distributor. Read part one, read part two, then go through her trash and steal her identity so you too can get paid to drink. Since summer is…

This is part two of our interview with cocktail guru Sly Cosmopoulos. Read part one, and check back tomorrow for more. What Dallas restaurants do you go to most often? Eddie V’s, Ocean Prime, and Sambuca are my favorites for steak and seafood. Now — if I want the flair…

Federal judge Susan Nelson might have demanded the NFL get onto the field and on with game, but that’s not likely to change much except court dates — except for the NFL draft, whose first round will still be held tonight. But the judge and players aren’t the only ones…

Since we can only handle Meredith, Matt and Al (and especially Willard Scott) after a full night of sleep, we’ll be nestled sound in our beds tomorrow morning while many of you will be waking up at an ungodly hour for a spot of tea and some wedding that’s being…

One of the dishes that blew the judges minds at Iron Fork last night (still full, by the way) was Scott Romano’s Scotch egg. A Scotch egg is traditionally prepared by hard boiling an egg, wrapping it in sausage and breading, then deep frying the whole damn thing. If you’re…

The folksy tunes of The Dallas Family Band moved through the air as the large musical group wound its way through a crowded, vibrant City Hall Plaza, usually a barren, human-repelling concrete landscape interrupted by abstract sculpture and, occasionally, scrawny trees. The mass of people was sitting on folding chairs…

Eat your heart out, Bobby Flay.The pressure cooker was hissing, and sweat was dripping down Scott Romano’s forehead as he cupped fresh California avocado around a soft boiled egg. Then, he dipped the whole thing in egg wash, breaded it and eased it into a deep frying bath…

I love me some Beyoncé. Her video for “Single Ladies” is mesmerizing. Kanye was right — it should have won Female Video of the Year (even though it went on to win Video of the Year). Beyoncé has this ease in her style — she’s like Sporty Spice the Exotic…

The unofficial Food Truck and Trailer Week continues, this time with Brenda and Pat Barnhart’s The Bomb Fried Pies & Fried Guacamole. The husband and wife team own and operate a trailer from which they offer fried hand pies in several flavors, among them cherry and apricot, and, of course,…

In Three-Course Meal, we usually interview local chefs over the course of three days. This week, we branch out a little. Check in tomorrow for more from our local cocktail ninja. Sly Cosmopoulos, 39, is the corporate mixologist for Republic National Distributing Company, a large liquor distributor. She’s in charge…

Dating advice. Everyone: books, shows, friends, animals, parents, tries to give it to you, but it never works. “Just be yourself,” “Play hard to get,” “Wait three days” are all about as useful as anger management tips from Meat Loaf. Since most first dates involve eating something, and City of…

Sadly, these are not available in Dallas yet, but they were too cool not to share. No Fish! Go Fish! is a groovy restaurant that my little sister introduced me to in Portland, Oregon. It serves homemade soup (a constantly rotating menu of flavors) and “fish.” The joint is owned…

Hello from Bangkok. I’m on a four-country work jaunt for the next three weeks, so no Dallas Walk the Wok, but you’ll be hearing all about what’s giving me gastrointestinal problems in Asia! After a 24-hour stop in Ho Chi Minh City to meet up with my mom, the first…

All right, all right, all right…So, we got this event tonight. An Iron Fork event, if you will. A kick ass night featuring bites from local restaurants like Kenichi, Lockhart Smokehouse, Torchy’s Tacos and much, much more. This kick ass Iron Fork event will pit local chefs Scott Romano of…

A new food truck is en route to Dallas. The mobile food vendor in question, Gandolfo’s New York Delicatessen, is part of an ambitious plan by owner Pool’s Restaurant Group for large-scale franchising of food trucks, and in the case of Randy Wolken, master franchiser for DFW, a way to…

Three bills bouncing around the Texas Legislature are being trumpeted as game-changers for the state’s beer industry. In quick review: HB 660 would permit brewpubs to sell directly to wholesalers and distributors; HB 2436 would allow small breweries to sell their product for on- or off-site consumption; and HB 602…