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Enticing with spice: Award-winning chef makes Indian food easy and fat fighting

By Joel Luks

06.01.13 | 2:55 pm

Ambitious home cooks who begin dabbling with Indian cuisine learn early on just how confusing it can be. Identifying legumes feels like deciphering the Periodic Table of Elements. Have you trie ...

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Women food power: All female, all-star chefs make "Bitches for Bitches" an unforgettable meal

By Jodie Eisenhardt

05.01.13 | 2:14 pm

A lucky sold-out crowd of 125 had their taste buds enticed by a talented lineup of all-female chefs, bartenders and wine professionals from Houston and Austin at event space 5226 Elm last week ...

Cooking class: Easy Indian One-Pot Meals with Shubhra Ramineni

04.18.13

This tasty cooking class is hosted by local cookbook author Shubhra Ramenini. She will be helping you prepare simple, easy one-pot Indian meals full of flavor and fun. All guests will also enjoy co

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When New York was wild: Return to city conjures up memories of gritty, magical place

By Cameron Dezen Hammon

04.07.13 | 2:30 pm

I saw the Freedom Tower last week. It’s the new, lead building on the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Lit by a hundred stories of construction lights but not yet occupied, ...

The Whole Story

Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey looks for a higher purpose in Conscious Capitalism

By Aleksander Chan

02.17.13 | 8:30 am

In his new book, Conscious Capitalism, Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey extols the virtues of a business acumen that values everyone along the production and consumption line. We caught up with h ...

Whole Foods Market Kirby presents "An Evening of Global Awareness"

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02.20.13

Join for a launch party for the annual Whole Planet Foundation Prosperity Campaign. The evening will include food, drinks a screening of Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus and a Q&

Goodbye and hello

End of an era? Most Rice Epicurean grocery stores to be replaced with Fresh Market

By Tyler Rudick

11.14.12 | 2:00 pm

Rice Epicurean — Houston's oldest family-owned grocery store chain — announced Wednesday that it will be paring down its presence in the Bayou City, as specialty food retailer ...

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Texas suburban dad takes on an American-made electric car: Behind the wheel of the Chevy Volt

By Joel Luks

11.12.12 | 9:59 am

For a commuter city in the Lone Star state that values largesse, and that includes oversized gas guzzlers that fit everything from children to dogs to the kitchen sink, can Chevy convince a typical ...

Reach for the sky

Major new restaurants negotiating to move into BLVD Place tower, but Bloomingdale's is out

By Whitney Radley

10.11.12 | 4:48 pm

Wulfe & Co. is set to break ground on a new residential tower in BLVD Place in early 2013, bringing the first housing option to the mixed-use, Galleria-area development already home t ...

Dressed for gaming

Scrabble gone wild: Sexy costumes, bribes and line dancing make for a real word orgy

By Joel Luks

09.15.12 | 1:01 pm

If a game of Scrabble conjures up images of proper wordsmithing, strict adherence to the rules and decorous chitchat about the etymology of the assembled words, accompanied by tea and crumpets, tha ...