Pat’s Pick
April 4, 2023
The Best Little Steakhouse in Texas Turns Forty
Tom and Lisa Perini have won awards, traveled the world, and cooked for heads of state. But nothing means more than the old hay barn where it all began.
Tom Perini
Recipes
November 20, 2019
Recipes: Classic Side Dishes From Perini Ranch Steakhouse’s New Cookbook
The original ranch-to-table restaurant shares its Texas spin on comfort food classics.
Food & Drink
July 20, 2016
Prime Dish
Two famed chefs share the secrets behind their hamburgers.
Recipes
August 13, 2015
Green Chile Cowboy Stew
A tradition of the trail—without the hide, hooves, or horns.
BBQ
January 7, 2015
Interview: Tom Perini of Perini Ranch Steakhouse
Co-Owner: Perini Ranch Steakhouse; Opened 1983Age: 71Smoker: Indirect Heat Wood-Fired PitWood: MesquiteTom Perini cooks with mesquite. It might be in the form of coals for direct heat cooking, or the active flames of burning logs for grilling steaks. That mesquite also fuels an offset smoker for the smoked prime rib served
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Foodways Texas Is Getting Fat and Sassy
Four highlights from "Texas Preserved," Foodways Texas' second annual symposium.
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Fried Chicken
The Dish You can identify the smell with your eyes closed: The salty, intoxicating aroma of fried chicken can be mistaken for nothing else. And if you grew up in Texas a generation or more ago, you know the sound, because Sunday dawned with the certainty that around eleven you’d
Eat My Words
March 26, 2012
Foodways Texas Is Getting Fat and Sassy
Foodways Texas, which was founded in July 2010 “to preserve, promote, and celebrate the diverse food cultures of Texas," held its second annual symposium in Austin this past weekend. A couple of hundred participants listened to talks on the theme of “Texas Preserved”—a deliberately wide-ranging topic that covered
Eat My Words
September 9, 2011
Ten Years After: Tom Perini’s 9/11 at the White House
(The famous Perini Ranch mesquite-smoked peppered beef tenderloin. Photo by Pat Sharpe)Editor's Note: This guest post is by longtime Texan Jim Shahin, now a resident of Washington, D.C.... and "craving Central Texas barbecue almost every minute of every day," he says. The "Smoke Signals" columnist for the Washingon Post,
Eat My Words
July 7, 2009
Watch Texas’s Own Tom Perini on “Today” Show This Thursday
Barring some major national news, like peace breaking out or another Michael Jackson will being found, Tom Perini is scheduled to be cooking up one of his nationally renowned hambugers on the “Today” show, this Thursday, during the 8:30 a.m. time segment. The fantastic mesquite-grilled burgers got accolades from the