The 2014 Food Issue
We don't have the statistics in front of us, but we're fairly certain humans spend as much time thinking about food as they do sex, so Valentine's Day seemed like an especially apt time to unveil our second annual Food Issue. Herein, you'll find stories about competitive eating, entomophagy, band tour diets, the art of food photography, the food forest movement, and much, much more.
The bedrock of the Food Issue is our 2014 First Plates Awards, which culls our critics' picks for the best and buzziest Austin restaurants, grouped by neighborhood. Because no matter where you are, there's always a great meal right around the corner.
From the Print Edition
The Way of the 'Food Forest'
Locavores planting seeds for the next phase of urban agriculture
Anna Toon, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
The New Look of Fine Dining
Austin's emerging restaurant empires
Rachel Feit, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
The Future Food Salon Carries a Message of Tasty Protein on Six Legs
Haute cuisine gets buggy to promote progressive thinking about global food supplies
Wayne Alan Brenner, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Rock Lobster
How do you eat healthy on tour?
Kevin Curtin, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Hungry Todd Rungy Knows How to Look Good While Eating Anything
Austin's favorite flag-waving super-patriot shows you how it's done
Wayne Alan Brenner, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
The Joy & Tiffany of Cooking
Local women revolutionize cooking for singles and couples, one YouTube video at a time
Jessi Cape, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Chew on This
The tech and TV tie-ins to Austin restaurants
Monica Riese and Shelley Hiam, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Food Is People
Look closely at Jody Horton's photographs of food, and you'll see the passionate folks who make it
Robert Faires, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
American Dreamer
Tiffany Harelik writes her own story through her cookbook series dedicated to Austin's food trailers
Melanie Haupt, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
From the Daily Feed
Ten Good Bites of Prose
Food and its preparation spans literary genres like a rich thick gravy
Wayne Alan Brenner, Fri., May 5, 2017
First Plates Extra Helpings: What’s Cooking in the Entomophagy Scene?
Among other things, would you believe … crickets as a Dai Due special?
Wayne Alan Brenner, Wed., Feb. 4, 2015
Food Issue Extra Helpings: My First Paycheck Was -$2.95
On being a terrible waiter
Andy Campbell, Wed., Feb. 19, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Picking
What could possibly be the reason for the way I eat?
Jordan Gass-Pooré, Wed., Feb. 19, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Reading Between the Lines
The weight of a family cookbook
Brandon Watson, Tue., Feb. 18, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: 10 Years a Server
The trenches of the service industry are full of lessons
Claire Gordon, Mon., Feb. 17, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Edibile Beyoncé
Valentine’s dinner for one
Abby Johnston, Fri., Feb. 14, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Cafe Bistro, Will You Be My Valentine?
I'm taking my little one on a date… to the mall
Terry Ornelas Woodroffe, Fri., Feb. 14, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Take your love and your love for food on a journey this V-Day
Lizzie Jespersen, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Very Superstitious
Do certain foods have supernatural powers?
Ria Nevada, Thu., Feb. 13, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Free on the 14th?
Valentine's is still delicious for us single people
Andrea Kinnison, Wed., Feb. 12, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Blood & Chocolate
Valentine’s playlist: ‘Someone left the cake out in the rain’
Jim Caligiuri, Wed., Feb. 12, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: Sandwiched Together
Notes from the 'Chronicle' lunch line
Kimberley Jones, Wed., Feb. 12, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: My Dinners with Jon Dee Graham
Cooking tips from one True Believer to another
William Harries Graham, Tue., Feb. 11, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: I'm Waiting for My Ham
A few lines about the lines around Austin
Chase Hoffberger, Mon., Feb. 10, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings: My Relationship as a Google Doc
Foodie favorites find an OCD home
Monica Riese, Mon., Feb. 10, 2014
Food Issue Extra Helpings
We're smacking our lips in anticipation of First Plates
