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This past spring, we hosted the Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival, talking to some of the fest's most intriguing and passionate personalities. Here's the latest video interview, with Jessica Sanders, co-owner of Austin's drink.well, and host Richard Martin. It's one of the most discerning drinking towns…

We're featuring Q&As from our Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival this past spring, with video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is Lawrence Kocurek, chef de cuisine at Trace at the W Austin. Lawrence Kocurek of Trace talks duck bacon, healthy…

We are featuring Q&As from our recent Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival, including video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is festival co-founder and Texas chef/restaurateur Tim Love. Food Republic Lounge Tim Love.YOUTUBE from Food Republic on Vimeo. Let’s talk about Restaurant…

We are featuring Q&As from our recent Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival, including video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is Georgia Pellegrini, the hunter, chef, TV personality, travel guide and author of three books, including Girl Hunter and the recent…

We're featuring Q&As from our recent Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival and Moontower Comedy Festival, including video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up, Dan Soder, a stand-up comedian who's a regular on MTV's The Guy Code, Conan and other fine comedy…

In the coming months, we'll feature Q&As from our recent Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival, featuring video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is John Currence, the chef and restaurateur behind City Grocery and other fine Oxford, Mississippi establishments, and the…

This past weekend in the Texas capital, the Austin Food and Wine Festival returned for its third straight year, and by most accounts it was the strongest event so far. Maybe that's because the emphasis was less on nationally known celebrity chefs and more on Texas' dazzling display of culinary talents. The Friday night event,…

Where can you watch Nine Inch Nails while eating a delicious sandwich conceived by a celebrity chef? At Lollapalooza, which takes place this weekend (Aug. 2-4) in Chicago's picturesque Grant Park. Besides a killer lineup featuring Trent Reznor's reunited band, The Cure, Mumford & Sons and dozens of other A-listers and up-and-comers, the monster music…

Not only is Andrew Zimmern one of the most brutally honest men in the food-television game (see: 10 Things I Hate With Andrew Zimmern), he’s also one of the most passionate Asian food boosters around — as we find out in this interview with Food Republic Contributing Editor Matt Rodbard, from the Food Republic Interview…

[embed=http://player.vimeo.com/video/67366875?byline=0&portrait=0] “The rule was, you couldn’t burn the house down,” half-jokes Austin restaurateur Jack Gilmore in our interview with him and his son, Bryce, at April’s Austin Food & Wine Festival. They were talking about Thanksgiving cooking traditions, emphasis on the cooking. Hands-on cooking. The two make quite the duo. Bryce is the owner of…

[embed=http://player.vimeo.com/video/67366730?byline=0&portrait=0] Austin, Texas chef Paul Qui will soon open the hotly anticipated Qui. Deana Saukam, his fiancée, who you are introduced to in this video at the Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the recent Austin Food & Wine Festival, keeps it all together. She serves as the restaurant’s PR and marketing director…

Amongst a small but growing cadre of comedy fans, Todd Barry is considered America's most hilarious dry wit. His observational humor somehow neatly balances self-deprecation and rage, and his delivery can elicit nervous laughter from audiences. Not so long ago, we called Barry to talk food, only to find out that the man has literally…

Reggie Watts is one of Food Republic's favorite comedians, so naturally, when we found out he'd be in town during Austin Food And Wine Festival's Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin last month, we invited him for a sit-down. We'll have more of that interview soon, but first, we wanted to share Reggie's…

“I’m a small cook from a small town. It’s the seventh largest city in the United States. It’s called San Antonio.” Jason Dady tells me this, wide-smiled and sweating, while he hovers over a Big Green Egg at last month’s Austin Food & Wine Festival. He’s grilling a whole branzino that has been simply dressed…

"Is this your first time in Austin?" People always seem to ask me this when I'm visiting one of my favorite cities, a city I've been to so many times I've literally lost count. I started going to Austin years back as a music critic covering South By Southwest, and have used any professional and…

Over the weekend we decamped to Austin, Texas for the second annual Austin Food & Wine Festival. It’s become sort of an annual spring thing for us and might we just say that spring has sprung in that part of the country. Texas, y'all are some beautiful people. On Friday we asked some of our…

Jesse Herman, though biased like the parent cheering section at a t-ball game, speaks the truth. “Austin has become the most exciting food city in the U.S.,” says the former New Yorker who moved to Texas to open restaurants. Very good restaurants, including scene-y Mexican cantina La Condesa and the recently opened Sway, a tribute…

“What we do is salt and pepper and…fire,” says pitmaster Aaron Franklin about the trademark Texas barbecue he sells out of his insanely popular Franklin Barbecue on the Eastside of Austin. People have waited up to four hours for his brisket, ribs and a Central-Texas play on pulled pork, which can run out at the…

It's a conversation that takes place in restaurants and bars across the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn every night: NYC is amazing, but it can be such a drag, so wouldn't it be easier to live somewhere else? Most New Yorkers debate and debate, but then either get too drunk to remember the next day…

In April we headed down to the Austin Food and Wine Festival to hang out with chefs, sample some crazy tacos and eat a ridiculous amount of barbecue. Food, as it should be, was our focus. But music was very close behind. We’re big music fans here. Hell, some of used to write about music…

The Food Republic Interview Lounge during the Austin Food & Wine Festival featured some great chefs, and one of my favorite chats was with Michelle Bernstein. Back before LeBron James took his talents to South Beach, when Miami was still thought of merely as a tropical playground for the young and fabulous or a retirement…

Over the past few weeks, we've been featuring videos from the Food Republic Interview Lounge that we co-hosted with W Austin hotel during the Austin Food & Wine Festival. We've seen Andrew Zimmern talk tube steaks, Tim Love and Marcus Samuelsson banter about grilling, and the Austin stars behind Uchi and Uchiko modestly discussing their…

Last month the Food Republic crew headed down to Austin, Texas to interview a bunch of chefs, bands and pitmaster Aaron Franklin (!) at the W Austin during the first Austin Food & Wine Festival. And then there was Marc Maron — comic, coffee drinker, podcaster, straight-talker and cat lover. He had the room busting…

Last week we shared one of the clear highlights of the Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during Austin Food & Wine Festival, a candid chat with Andrew Zimmern. Right after the Bizarre Foods America host left the stage, Marcus Samuelsson and Tim Love decided to eschew individual interviews and instead sit on…

I borrowed this recipe straight from Janina Oleary, pasty chef at TRACE restaurant at the W Austin. A granita, or water ice, is simply a mix of flavored water and sugar that is not allowed to freeze completely solid, with the texture of a grainy slush. It was so incredibly refreshing in the 90-degree heat…