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  We Try Stephan Pyles' Menu at Fireside Pies

  October 19 at 8:06 a.m.

  Chef Stephan Pyles has partnered with Fireside Pies to offer a special menu at select locations. The alliance came together in a Cambodian restaurant during a meeting between Mark Parmerlee, the owner of Fireside Pies, and Pyles. That restaurant had created a separate menu in collaboration with a local chef,...

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  Chubby Dog Farm and Brand Up for Sale. It's not the Pandemic.

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  It was just two months ago that we were talking with Chubby Dog Farm owners about how they were weathering the pandemic. Their pork is on menus all over Dallas, the quality is wonderful and chefs like them — for the product and the two people who own and run...

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  DCCCD to Host 12th Annual Food Event with a Drive-Thru

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas County Community College District brings together some of Dallas’ best chefs to fundraise for the district’s culinary, pastry and hospitality program. It’s the 12th year for the event, and it will look different thanks to COVID-19. (We’re working on finding new ways to word such news.) But it’s a...

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  Warm Biscuits and Seasonal Jelly to Fill Your Soul

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  “I have all very yummy days,” is one of the first things Donna Collins told me about herself on the phone recently. It’s not a bad introduction.  Collins is the jelly queen, even though she says there are many, all of whom she's worked or cooked with over the years. It...

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  Dallas City Council Debates, Approves Funding to Get Food Boxes to Residents

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  On a recent Sunday afternoon, volunteers gathered at Kirkwood Temple CME in the Wolf Creek neighborhood of southern Dallas. They were there with local nonprofit Services of Hope to help register people to vote and deliver 25-pound “Hope Community Food Boxes” filled with healthy food to families in need. Despite the...

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  Palmer’s to Serve Dallas Even More Hot Chicken Come Monday

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  Palmer’s Hot Chicken opens in the Hillside neighborhood of East Dallas Oct. 19, serving the spicy bird that continues its trend through Dallas. Observer writer Alex Gonzalez spoke with owner Palmer Fortune in June, when we got to learn a little more about what this Texas native, Nashville-bred restaurateur is...