A couple weeks ago, I spent the night in a hotel in downtown Seattle so I could catch an early flight back to the southwest. It happened to be a Friday. I needed to go to the drugstore for lady stuff and ibuprofen, but all the drugstores within walking distance were closed, though it was only 8pm. But there was a 7-Eleven a few blocks away still open. I put on my shoes and coat, brushed my hair, and—my mother’s daughter after all—swiped on some lipstick and went out into the

In a Feb. 20 news release, the restaurant owner announced that she purchased the property on which her restaurant sits, as well as plans to expand the space with two new concepts...

Rebelutions correct the internal voltage differential we create inside ourselves by denying the part in all of us that is more Rebel than Taskmasker. If our inner taskmaster makes resolutions, it’s usually our inner rebel that breaks them. The battle can be exhausting. We think it's all Rebel's fault.

Growing up, my family was very serious about Christmas rituals Almost all of them were about food, or drink, or both. There was our sanctioned annual cookie line-up: Nutty Nougats (Uncle Clint always ate them all)

Erin caught up with Tiera Neubaum to talk about Ette et Ette and refreshing summer favorites on Fox 7 Austin's Good Day Program.

Mid-summer, my boo Jeff scheduled his second bike packing trip with friends from University of Texas architecture school. They intend this to be an annual thing, which I think is super cool, a way to check in and reconnect despite increasingly chaotic lives. Last year was Valles Caldera and this year they planned to ride, over three days, the Continental Divide Trail from Chama to Ojo Caliente.

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On her 10-acre Nambé property, chef-farmer-restaurateur Erin Wade has a special attachment to her first home garden. This garden—which sustainably contributes ingredients for her restaurant Vinaigrette—is an outdoor addition to her 300-year-old adobe fixer-upper. ..

When I opened my first restaurant, I spent so much time there my mom sent me a twin bed for Christmas.

An old-school restaurant expert once taught me about something he called the “three portals of restaurants.”

Sometimes I sit with my elbows on my kitchen counter and stare at the red cabbage sprouts. I look closer until I find new ones that have poked through the soil, wearing their husks like a hat. Their spicy funk—the same compound that makes wasabi hot—tickles my nostrils.

Many people [...] didn't realize how these delivery platforms are threatening to kill the restaurant, an institution that survived centuries of tumult but may not make it through the COVID-19 crisis.

Your favorite restaurant is closed. Anything open is a ghost kitchen with a skeleton crew serving takeout comfort.

In an open letter to Grubhub’s CEO, Erin Wade calls out the delivery monster for squeezing tiny restaurant margins and profiting off local businesses, even when those restaurants never signed up.

A New Mexico import, this place is the best thing to happen to your lunch routine if you live or work anywhere nearby. Whether the word...

The world of food can’t be boxed, bagged and delivered. Every time we swipe, tap or click lunch or dinner, the future of dining dies a little.

At the beginning of every year, hot on the heels of holiday excess, my salad restaurant Vinaigrette fields a flurry of calls and emails about which of our menu items are “Whole 30 friendly.” If every generation has its favorite diet (remember Brandt, Atkins, The Zone, South Beach?), the one that has captured our attention now is the Whole 30.

Here’s the inconvenient truth: You can’t have your cake – or your Salacho and fried kale frittters – and eat with your iPhone, too.