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Noted vegetarian cookbook author Deborah Madison comes to Austin with her new book, Local Flavors: Cooking & Eating From America's Farmers' Markets, in her basket.

Happenings at Matt's El Rancho, Boggy Creek, Basil's, and more.

Great food and creative fundraising go hand in hand here in Austin for the next few weeks.

Chefs get the credit; sous chefs get dinner on the table.

Don't sweat it trying to create the perfect mating of beer and food, Chronicle Food writer Wes Marshall writes in a review of North by Northwest Restaurant & Brewery. Pick a drink you like, pick a dish you like, and just enjoy them.

Food Editor Virginia B. Wood's toaster activity and other recent Austin culinary news.

"It's good food, well prepared, reasonably priced, straight up, no frills. I like it," Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals about young chef Shawn Cirkiel's cuisine at Jean-Luc's Bistro.

The Food writers gobble through 2001

Giving the gift of food this Christmas

Food editor Virginia B. Wood makes corrections on the Chronicle's recent "Barbecue Dynasties" article and updates readers on local goings-on.

Considering what we're thankful for in the local food scene

At the Wiseman House in Hico, Kevin Wenzel serves up some of the finest chocolates in Texas.

The best of the new fall shows

Austin cultural historian Claudia Alarcón, a native of Mexico City, on her annual quest for chiles en nogada.

Reassessing the state of Austin's food security

As Food editor Virginia B. Wood relates in a review of Wink, a new restaurant on North Lamar, two of Austin's longtime chefs are busy operating the restaurant of their dreams.

Suburbanites Wrestle Over Managed Growth, Smart Growth, and "Stupid Growth"

Changing hands at Jean-Luc's French Bistro and other culinary news.

As a birthday gift last week, my family and friends treated me to a plane ticket to Greensboro, NC, so I could attend a Southern Foodways Alliance field trip investigating the foods of the Carolina Piedmont.

Fishing for striped bass in Lake Texoma.

There's nothing new about fundraising events in Austin, but a friend-raiser is a new concept in River City. That's what the board members, staff, and community volunteers associated with the Sustainable Food Center / Austin Community Gardens (SFC / ACG) chose to call the event they threw this past Sunday afternoon.

My daily headaches have cleared up since I began taking six tablets of acetaminophen (Tylenol) every day. Should I keep looking for a nutritional solution?

by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff

On any given evening, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes, Zoot's cozy, warmly lit dining room fills with a cross-section of the city. Seated around the white-clothed tables you find young and old, dates and small groups, black-clad hipsters and the obvious "out of towners," all nodding in approval as they spear forkfuls of sautéed veal sweetbreads, roasted chicken, or seared duck.

Who Wants to Eat Like a Millionaire? and more from Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood.