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January 21, 2015
Austin Food & Wine Festival Lineup Announced
And the list includes chefs from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Nashville, as well as the usual homegrown talent.
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April 28, 2014
Texas Two-Sipping at the Austin Food and Wine Festival
The festival was in high spirits.
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January 21, 2014
The Austin Food & Wine Festival Lineup Announced
The food festival will feature acclaimed chefs from all over the state, and tickets (a bit pricey, admittedly) are now on sale.
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January 3, 2014
Texas Winemaker Wows Judges on First Round of ABC-TV’s “The Taste”
Texas fans of ABC’s The Taste, a cooking competition show, may have recognized a certain well-known Texas winemaker in the season’s first episode. Don Pullum of Mason, a small town west of Fredericksburg, wowed celebrity judges Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Marcus Samuelsson, and Ludo Lefebvre with his savvy culinary skills
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April 29, 2013
The Austin Food & Wine Festival Cleans Up Its Act the Second Time Around
But was it worth the admission price tag?
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April 26, 2013
Momofuku’s Christina Tosi on Her Love For Kolaches
This weekend, a host of well-known chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and restaurateurs will descend upon Austin for the second annual Austin Food & Wine Festival. To prepare for this weekend’s food and wine festivities, Texas Monthly spoke with a few of the local and celebrity chefs from this year’s lineup. Here,
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April 26, 2013
Top Chef Marcus Samuelsson on What Makes the Austin Food & Wine Fest “Rock ‘N Roll”
This weekend, dozens of well-known chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and restaurateurs will descend upon Austin for the second annual Austin Food & Wine Festival. To prepare for this weekend’s food and wine festivities, Texas Monthly spoke with a few of the local and celebrity chefs from this year’s lineup. Here, James
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April 26, 2013
Tim Love on His New Steakhouse in Fort Worth and Expanding to Austin
This weekend, dozens of well-known chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and restaurateurs will descend upon Austin for the second annual Austin Food & Wine Festival. To prepare for this weekend’s food and wine festivities, Texas Monthly spoke with a few of the local and celebrity chefs from this year’s lineup. Here, Fort
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April 25, 2013
Paul Qui on His New Restaurant, His Inspirations, and Acting Like a Celebrity
This weekend, dozens of well-known chefs, mixologists, sommeliers, and restaurateurs will descend upon Austin for the second annual Austin Food & Wine Festival. To prepare for this weekend’s food and wine festivities, Texas Monthly spoke with a few of the local and celebrity chefs from this year’s lineup. Here, Paul
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January 30, 2013
Austin Food & Wine Festival announces finalized schedule
Yesterday, the Austin Food & Wine Festival announced the finalized schedulefor the 2013 festival, which takes place April 26-28 at Auditorium Shores. The culinary event features a plethora of seminars including Drinking Vinegars & Shrubs, Classic Desserts in a Modern Kitchen, Qui Ingredients, It’s Tailgate Time In
Food & Drink
January 21, 2013
Was the Austin Food and Wine Festival Worth It?
The $850 weekend delivered on the food, wine and great chefs, but it came with a side of long lines and harsh dust.
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November 8, 2012
Austin FOOD & WINE Festival Releases Tickets and Lineup Information
The day has come! Tickets for the Austin FOOD & WINE Festival go on sale today, November 8, at 10 a.m. CST. The Festival, which takes place April 26-28, 2013 at Auditorium Shores and Republic Square Park, will feature a myriad of
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November 1, 2012
Stay Hungry and Thirsty, My Friends: Austin FOOD & WINE Festival Gears Up for Year Two
After months and months of planning and preparation, The Austin FOOD & WINE Festival made its debut at Auditorium Shores last April. For three long days, attendees swarmed festival grounds – eager to eat, drink, and mingle with a mix of local and national celebrity chefs. Overall, the first Austin FOOD &
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September 25, 2012
Tickets for Austin Food & Wine Alliance’s Wine & Swine On Sale
Image Courtesy of Austin Food & Wine Alliance Tickets are now on sale for the Austin Food & Wine Alliance’s 2nd Annual Wine & Swine. The hog-centric event will take place on Sunday, November 4 at Pioneer Farms in Austin. A
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July 10, 2012
Marcus Samuelsson talks ‘Yes, Chef,’ Texas cuisine, and transforming Harlem
At the prime age of 42, Marcus Samuelsson has already attained a lifetime of culinary success. As a 24-year-old chef, he became the youngest chef ever to receive a three-star rating from The New York Times; in 2003, he received the “Best Chef: New York City” award from the James Beard
Libations
April 30, 2012
Build a Better Margarita and They Will Come
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April 30, 2012
In Review: The Austin Food & Wine Festival
For months, a great deal of hype and anticipation surrounded this weekend’s Austin Food & Wine Festival, and yet even before the festival commenced, extensive criticism began plaguing it. Many critics from around Texas and Austin bemoaned the rather pricey tickets: $850 is a pretty penny to have to pay
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April 24, 2012
Gail Simmons on Austin vs. New York, Paul Qui, and Texas summers
There aren’t many Anna Wintours out there in the world. In fact, most magazine editors generally prefer to stay hidden from the glare of media exposure. Glued to recorders and notepads, they are the ones who conduct interviews, the ones who bury themselves in
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February 7, 2012
Tim Love’s Woodshed Is Smoking Fort Worth
Moments after Tim Love’s late-afternoon announcement on Jan. 31 that he would open his long-awaited Fort Worth restaurant, Woodshed, that evening–a day earlier than anticipated–the indoor-outdoor smokehouse with a worldly menu of wood-fired foods was instantly swamped with hungry, thirsty patrons.