by | November 22, 2012 · 8:08 am

Letting Up Despite Great Faults and the Emerging Synthgaze

by Dr. Spin

It was the second morning of my CrossFit level-1 certification program, and I was feeling pretty euphoric. I had gotten up early, eaten a well-rounded paleo-zone breakfast, and studied my materials while listening to the Asian shoegaze compilation Half Dreaming. Stepping out of my hotel room, I was experiencing gratitude for the life I have, as well as the obstacles that were in my way that grant me the perspective to appreciate my good fortune.

I was even thankful for the questionable cup of freshly brewed hotel coffee I balanced in my hand as I juggled my bags and keys. Untogether, an album by a band called Letting Up Despite Great Faults, was in the CD player. This was a conscious, deliberate decision that I had prearranged the evening before. It seemed a fitting soundtrack for the weekend, because after all, the album was in my hands entirely due to CrossFit… Happy Thanksgiving!

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by | November 21, 2012 · 6:53 pm

A Carino Thanksgiving

by Chef Johnny Carino

Johnnie Carino is the noted TV Host of Lifestyle Cooking with Chef Johnny Carino on liveo.com (coming soon) and owner Chef Johnny Carino Innovations a Dallas based restaurant consulting firm. He has offered to give a little Turkey Day advice to the craveDFW readers for those still needing a bit of help. Thank you, Johnny.

As a kid, being Italian, our dinner was turkey, ham, prime rib, lasagna or stuffed shells. My grandmother lived to 99 and made awesome stuffed shells I can still taste them from the basement of her Brooklyn home and my home that I was born in. The Italian stuffing, Brussels sprouts with pancetta and the pancetta oil, salad and Italian cookies, rum baba and cannolis. Yes we even had pumpkin pies, but if you have ever had Brooklyn pastries you don’t eat the pie. And oh yea, great Italian Bread.   Continue reading →

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by | November 21, 2012 · 1:34 pm

Happy Chefsgiving: Anastacia Quinones

by Steven Doyle

Thanksgiving is upon us once again and all the gobblers are running for cover. To get you in the mood for a little fun and relaxation we asked a few chefs around Dallas several questions so we get our dinner cooked just right. We will run their answers both today and tomorrow, so check back often to see how your favorite chef weighs in on the holiday.

Anastacia Quinones is the genius in the kitchen at Abraham Salum’s Mexico City-style restaurant, Komali. The press loves AQ and she has had many accolades in her culinary career. As we enter into this holiday season AQ is about to make a few traditions of her own, and is expecting the birth of her daughter on New Year’s Eve.          Continue reading →

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by | November 21, 2012 · 11:37 am

Happy Chefsgiving: Will Fleischman

by Steven Doyle

Thanksgiving is upon us once again and all the gobblers are running for cover. To get you in the mood for a little fun and relaxation we asked a few chefs around Dallas a some questions so we get our dinner cooked just right. We will run their answers both today and tomorrow, so check back often to see how your favorite chef weighs in on the holiday.

Will Fleischman is the pit master and chef at Lockhart Smokehouse in the Bishop Arts District. He was featured as one of the top ten pit masters in the United States by Southern Living Magazine and has cooked around the world. Think of Will as a thinking man’s chef who has an affinity for post oak.

Don’t let Will’s deadpan humor or enormous beard frighten you away, the man is very approachable and entertaining. Continue reading →

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by | November 21, 2012 · 10:57 am

Happy Chefsgiving: Graham Dodds

by Steven Doyle

Thanksgiving is upon us once again and all the gobblers are running for cover. To get you in the mood for a little fun and relaxation we asked a few chefs around Dallas a few questions so we get our dinner cooked just right. We will run their answers both today and tomorrow, so check back often to see how your favorite chef weighs in on the holiday.

Chef Graham Dodds runs a tight kitchen at Central 214 which is located at the Palomar Hotel in Dallas. Dodds doesn’t subscribe to the farm-to-table movement, he lives it. The chef is an avid supporter of the local farm community and according to his mother he wanted to a beekeeper when he was growing up. Now with a family of his own Dodds most likely has a bit different take on Thanksgiving than he did as a child.       Continue reading →

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by | November 21, 2012 · 10:35 am

Happy Chefsgiving: Richard Chamberlain

by Steven Doyle

Thanksgiving is upon us once again and all the gobblers are running for cover. To get you in the mood for a little fun and relaxation we asked some chefs around Dallas a few questions so we get our dinner cooked just right. We will run their answers both today and tomorrow, so check back often to see how your favorite chef weighs in on the holiday.

Chef-owner Richard Chamberlain of both Chamberlain’s Steak and Chop House and Chamberlain’s Fish Market weighed in on our holiday survey. Chamberlain is an avid hunter and fisherman, so you can bet there will be a large bounty set at his family table.   Continue reading →

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by | November 20, 2012 · 4:28 pm

America’s Douchiest Bars

by Rob Corddry

[Ed. note: You may know today’s writer from The Daily Show, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Childrens Hospital. He’s Rob Corddry, and we asked him about the douchiest bars in the country. Not that we frequent them or anything.]

Weymouth, Massachusetts: The Sports Page I don’t think this bar still exists, if it ever did. It was called the “Sports Something or Other” and it was filled with guys who used to punch me in the face in high school and now seem to have more of a reason to do so. Why did I think being in a movie with Ashton Kutcher would lend me any street cred with these heavy-fisted people? I have fond memories of high school and relish the moments when I run into someone I spent so many formative years with. Except the face-punchers. They can go to hell. Address Unknown       Continue reading →

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by | November 20, 2012 · 2:25 pm

Man Eats One Billion Chicken Wings

by Jennifer Thomas

Well, maybe not billion. More like the billionth.

Quaker Steak and Lube is about to open their second DFW area location in Plano this coming January and to celebrate they held a hard hat party and also counted down their billionth chicken wing.  The honors for the billionth wing went to the man who devoured the chicken in record time.

Ken Rumbaugh was pronounced the mayor of Lube Nation and said, “Eating the billionth wing was an absolute honor and privilege, I am so proud to be the Mayor of Lube Nation!”      Continue reading →

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