Chefs For Farmers is turning 16 this year, and it’s marking the milestone by handing out something it’s never given before: an award that has nothing to do with a dish or a wine pour. The festival is launching its inaugural Community Impact Awards, honoring four Dallas hospitality figures whose influence runs well past the dining room.
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Let’s start with a question. What do you think is the perfect food while watching Thoroughbreds compete at Saratoga Racecourse? Something elegant, or something traditional?
Saratoga is obviously one of the rare American sporting venues where bringing a proper picnic still feels like part of the experience rather than an attempt to avoid concession prices. This is one of the few remaining racetracks that allow you to pack your food in personal coolers (maximum size 12” x 18”), which honestly makes watching the event even more exciting.
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Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope opened on May 25, 1977, written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Gary Kurtz, with a score by John Williams that did as much to define the movie’s identity as anything on screen. A desert-planet farmhand named Luke Skywalker, played by Mark Hamill, gets pulled into a galactic rebellion after a droid hides a stolen set of plans inside its memory banks. He falls in with an aging hermit named Obi-Wan Kenobi, played by Alec Guinness, a smuggler named Han Solo, played by Harrison Ford, and a captured rebel leader named Princess Leia, played by Carrie Fisher.
Standing against them is Grand Moff Tarkin, played by Peter Cushing, and his enforcer, Darth Vader. The plot is simple enough to draw on a napkin. Everything interesting happens in how it’s executed.
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From the outside, there’s almost nothing marking what’s happening inside Scilla. Duro Hospitality has built its reputation on rooms that reveal themselves slowly, and its newest restaurant, set into the ground floor of the new 8111 Douglas office tower at Preston Center, keeps that habit intact.
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Lounge Here hides behind an unmarked strip center on Garland Road, the kind of exterior that gives away nothing about what’s happening inside. Walk through the door and the room drops you into a retro cocktail lounge, all plush banquettes, moody lighting and a mural by Rainer Judd, daughter of artist Donald Judd. Owner Julie Doyle, known around Dallas for co-founding Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree and running Good Records next door, built the place to feel like a different decade entirely. The kitchen backs that ambition up with some of the more serious Southern cooking in East Dallas.
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Every August, Dallas hands you a reason to finally book the table you’ve been putting off. DFW Restaurant Week turns 30 this year, running from Preview Weekend on August 6 through the final stretch on September 7, and more than 150 restaurants across the Metroplex are offering prix fixe menus built specifically for the occasion. Two-course lunches run $29, three-course dinners land at $49 or $59, and a handful of restaurants are offering $99 Signature Experience dinners with an extra course thrown in. About 20 percent of what you spend goes to the North Texas Food Bank or, for restaurants in Tarrant County, Lena Pope.
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For people who genuinely love food, the kitchen is much more than a place to prepare everyday meals. It can be a creative space for experimenting with recipes, gathering with friends, opening a bottle of wine, and turning an ordinary evening into an occasion.
As kitchens have become more central to entertaining and daily life, homeowners are paying greater attention to features that were once chosen primarily for practical reasons. The kitchen sink is a perfect example, with distinctive materials, larger proportions, and eye-catching designs transforming this hardworking fixture into an important part of the overall aesthetic.
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Tongkat ali, or Eurycoma longifolia, has been studied for its potential effects on androgen activity, stress response, energy levels, and sexual function. The evidence is promising, yet it is not uniform across every user. Baseline hormone status, extract strength, sleep quality, nutrition, training load, and age all matter. A careful reading helps our decisions stay grounded in physiology rather than supplement hype.
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