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Austin, You Are Wearing Me Down

Posted in Food, Seafood, Travel, tagged on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It’s high allergy season here in Austin, and it’s making me miserable. I find myself thinking about the east coast a lot. I think about November days when it doesn’t get up to 80 degrees. I think about being able to take a direct flight to somewhere other than Houston or Dallas. Also, I think [...]

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Autumn in Washington

Posted in Food, Seafood, Travel, tagged on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Eliza and I were in DC last weekend. It was a refreshing break from the Austin heat and rain. And on the cab ride in, it was nice to see some colors from the season that Texas forgot: autumn. Our first meal was with all of our parents plus my brother and sister-in-law at Clyde’s, [...]

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Old School San Francisco

Posted in Food, Seafood, Travel, tagged on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I recently spent the better part of three weeks in San Francisco for work. At the beginning of my last week there I was talking to my mom on the phone, when she asked me incredulously, “You haven’t been to Tadich’s yet?” My parents lived in San Francisco in the late sixties, before I was [...]

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Shuck Shack

Posted in Food, Seafood, tagged on August 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Yesterday afternoon we ventured to East Austin to check out Shuck Shack, a new seafood joint. We got there before the kitchen opened and were invited to have a seat and a cocktail in their patio area. I hesitated, because Austin is averaging temperatures of 105 lately, but the preservation of some big old trees [...]

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Prejean’s, Lafayette LA

Posted in Cajun, Food, Seafood, Travel, tagged on August 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »

NOTE: This post was supposed to be part of our big road trip series, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle. Road Food had lots of great-sounding recommendations for lunch in Lafayette, but we were finally swayed by the plethora of crawfish options at Prejean’s. Plus, it was just off the highway. They had [...]

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