Category Archives: Food Product

C. S. Lewis

I like tea. I know I am in the morning minority. Coffee looks good and smells good, but the taste isn’t…well…my cup of tea. Austin seems to be on the edge of a tea revolution of sorts. A few specialty tea stores have opened up in recent years. One of my favorites is the Tea […]

Local Dressing: Tuna Salad

Seared Tuna Salad: bib lettuce, red onion, big eye tuna, caramelized yellow onion, Sass Sesame and Garlic salad dressing and a drizzle of ginger tamarind sauce. Sass is a local salad dressing company, started in 1986 by twin sisters Carol and Lauri Raymond. Apparently, the name stands for Season All Stuff Sauce (I guess that […]

Charcuterie, Sausages & Condiments

This is beginning to look like standard fare from Jesse and his gang at Dai Due. Another notification of items of goodness for sale: Kielbasa, Duck Boudin Noir, Boudin Blanc, Country Style Sausage, Chorizo, Rillettes, Sauces, Stock and Lard (O, my). No fear, the supper club is still in full effect, but they are taking […]

The Call Goes Out

Dai Due chef, Jesse Griffith is on top of it. Not only can attend his supper club, you can now get his sausage and charcuterie direct. I was at his last session when he was whipping up his latest batch with a great crew of guys. They made it look pretty simple (but it wasn’t). […]

Group Hug

I sat in on a meeting with Better Bites of Austin (formerly Small Bites). Great group of Austin food business owners. It’s a ‘power in numbers’ kind of thing and I would say it is working. I see their products all around town. See who the members are and shop Austin!