In the Spotlight

Food publicists set the stage for Austin's culinary rock stars

By Veronica Meewes

03.31.13 | 3:15 pm

It seems Austin’s status as the Live Music Capital is being increasingly challenged by its reputation as a food destination. Though we’re certainly not “the city that never sleeps ...

Digital dirt

4 farm to web businesses: Austin experiences welcomed surge in online local food resources

By Layne Lynch

02.12.13 | 12:42 pm

What was once a world populated by mom-and-pop shops and small startups has now become plagued with e-commerce, smartphones and social networks. In a time like this, small businesses and young ...

Farm to Disco

Swan Dive

01.14.13

Swan Dive is kicking off 2013 by honoring the Sustainable Food Center’s new headquarters, set to open later this year. Chef Sonya Cote of The Homegrown Revival and Hillside Farmacy is hosting

National Spotlight

Hillside Farmacy's Sonya Coté named Top Foodie in Marie Claire's Woman on Top Awards

By Arden Ward

10.23.12 | 11:31 am

Hillside Farmacy executive chef Sonya Coté is in good company today. The November issue of Marie Claire hits newsstands today and features the Women on Top Awards 2012, which names Cot&eacut ...

Seeds of Change

The growth of the Sustainable Food Center: Blossoming from small organization to valiant culinary force

By Layne Lynch

07.27.12 | 12:15 pm

In 1975, an Austin YMCA aligned themselves with an ambitious project called Austin Community Gardens (ACG) and began cultivating and harvesting homegrown food with the help of a small group of ...

Austin Film Society presents: Now, Forager Salon and Dinner

The Butterfly Bar

06.11.12

You are invited to meet Julia Halperin & Jason Cortlund, the filmmakers behind NOW, FORAGER, a film about love and fungi. AFS featured the film as a Narratives-in-Progress in 2011 and Austin Fi

FEED YOUR EARS

Lunch sounds good: Sonya Coté and Graham Reynolds at Fusebox 2012

By Justin Boyle

05.03.12 | 11:20 am

It's the furthest thing from a secret that Austin residents rank among the lucky when it comes to good food. The culinary scene in this town has shown a breadth of scope and depth of quality th ...

drugstore turned bistro

Opening day at Hillside Farmacy: Humming with activity, looking understatedly gorgeous

By Shelley Seale

03.05.12 | 3:30 pm

I am sitting in East Austin's newest eatery, Hillside Farmacy, hours after it officially opened on Monday. The interior meets expectations and is smartly done; it's reminiscent of the pharm ...

texas tradition

Foodways Texas and the preservation of culinary culture

By Jackie Rangel

02.05.12 | 10:00 am

Although Foodways Texas’ 2nd Annual symposium doesn't take place until the weekend of March 23-25, tickets went on sale this week to the general public with the hopes of bringing together ...

Foodways Texas Annual Symposium

Blanton Museum of Art

03.23.12 - 03.25.12

Texas Preserved, the second Foodways Texas symposium, will explore the ways Texasns preserve Texas (as a region, as an idea) in our food and the ways we preserve food in Texas. Registration inc