Courtney E. Smith was born and raised in Texas, although she detoured for a spell to live in New York City and Los Angeles as a journalist and while working in the music industry. She currently resides in Dallas.
Summer is around the corner and that means soft-serve season. But restaurants around the country are serving up more than nostalgia, including soft-serve margaritas.
Not every barbecue cookbook will tell you how to butcher an entire animal, but "New School Barbecue" by Evan LeRoy of LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue and Paula Forbes of Texas Monthly will.
Jaya dropped a thought in the Ravenous Slack: "I feel like there's a piece on the rise of the tuna tostada." It started a conversation that illustrates why it's important to have writers everywhere.