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It really is important to eat a balanced meal. And you should definitely balance your meat out with dessert. I’m a huge advocate of pie. See this super deluxe chocolate chip cookie pie I made before? I’m also really into buttermilk pie, key lime...

  Stanley’s Famous Pit Bar-B-Q 525 S Beckham Ave Tyler, TX 75702 I reckon in the past month I’ve received no less than 4 emails from Aussie chefs asking me to hook them up with a BBQ internship in Austin. Austin. Austin. Austin. It’s all the...

Herby K’s 1833 Pierre Ave Shreveport, LA 71103 Shreveport is probably best known for it’s rather depressing riverfront Casino gambling and  houses which appear in the True Blood opening credits. Suffice to say, it’s not Louisiana’s biggest tourist drawcard. I myself ended up there on a...

 Joseph’s Riverport BBQ 201 N Polk St Jefferson, TX 75657 Jefferson is a real gem of a place. This small East Texas town is a beautifully preserved collection of historic shopfronts and Victorian mansions, having been a major port for the steamboats from New Orleans in...

Ahhh Christmas. I don’t know if I’d call it the most wonderful time of the year. That’s reserved for the beginning of football season (gridiron not AFL). But, it is time yet again for my (not at all famous) Christmas gift guide. Whether you are...

Spahr’s Seafood 3682 Highway 90 E Des Allemands, LA 70030   About 40 minutes south west of New Orleans sits a a tiny town in Cajun country called Des Allemands. It’s not really mentioned in any travel guides or tourism sites and there’s nothing particularly extraordinary...

Country Tavern Hwy 31 & FM 2767 Kilgore, TX 75662   I’ve heard travelling to East Texas referred to as “going behind the Pine Curtain”. My personal experiences with East Texas have been incidental drive-bys en route to Caddo Lake. And right there off Hwy 31,...

Its been a few days, but I’m still recovering from the mayhem of Cinco De Mayo Drinko. Ok so, maybe Cinco De Mayo isn’t exactly a big deal in Mexico. It’s actually the anniversary of the battle of Puebla, but somewhere along the way...

Tomorrow, I turn another year older. Not necessarily wiser. Definitely smart-assier. I’ve got my health and great friends and family ( <3 ) and am generally a pretty content cookie. But a birthday wishlist of stuff I covet can’t hurt, right? ‘ride it like you stole...

Cheeseburger Baby 1505 Washington Ave Miami Beach, FL, 33139 You know, sometimes you can tell just by looking at something that you’re going to hate it. Like a Renee Zellweger movie, or someone wearing a Nickelback t-shirt. Such was my experience with Cheeseburger Baby....