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1) Exploring El Paso’s Culinary Heritage With Chef Emiliano Marentes of ELEMI, Hosted by SAVEUR EIC Kat Craddock
In El Paso, chef Emiliano Marentes is preserving Mexican culinary traditions while infusing them with a modern sensibility. At ELEMI, his intimate taco-focused restaurant, Marentes makes tortillas fro...Show More
2) Inside Panther City BBQ’s Tex-Mex Twist on Barbecue
At Fort Worth’s Panther City BBQ, pitmasters Chris Magallanes and Ernest Morales are blending Tex-Mex tradition with smoky innovation in dishes like brisket guisada and pork belly jalapeño poppers. Th...Show More
3) Bringing Creole Cooking to Dallas With Chef Tiffany Derry of Roots Southern Table
Top Chef alum Tiffany Derry brings wood-fire technique, family recipes, and Southern pride to Dallas at Roots Southern Table. In this conversation with SAVEUR contributing editor Ellen Fort, Derry dis...Show More
Bringing Creole Cooking to Dallas With Chef Tiffany Derry of Roots Southern Table
30:18 | Jul 31st, 2025
4) Aaron Bludorn’s Journey from Chef to Restaurateur in Houston
Chef Aaron Bludorn is building a Gulf Coast fine dining empire in Houston, Texas. Joined by host Alyse Whitney, he discusses the region’s local seafood, Houston’s adventurous dining community, and how...Show More
5) Exploring Austin and the Art of Ingredient Innovation With Chef Edgar Rico of Nixta Taqueria
At Nixta Taqueria in Austin, Texas, chef Edgar Rico is pushing the boundaries of Austin’s taco culture with duck fat, fermentation, and Oaxacan corn. In this episode, he sits down with host Meena Thir...Show More
6) Chef Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin Tells a Story With Every Dish at San Antonio’s Best Quality Daughter
San Antonio-born chef Jennifer Hwa Dobbertin of Best Quality Daughter brings personal history, Asian American identity, and nostalgic flavors to her restaurant in the heart of the city’s Pearl Distric...Show More
7) Alice Waters On Feeding People an Idea and Victory-Meets-Guerilla Gardening in Berkeley, California
When she opened her restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, Alice Waters had no plans for pioneering California cuisine or launching the farm-to-table movement across the U.S. But following her p...Show More
8) Omar Tate & Cybille St.Aude-Tate on Celebrating Black Foodways and Building Better Food Systems in Philadelphia
With Honeysuckle Provisions, co-founders Omar Tate and Cybille St.Aude-Tate are offering something comfortingly familiar but also radically new. Their Afrocentric grocery store and cafe opened last mo...Show More
9) Chris Gentine on the Joys of Culinary Collaboration and the Art (and Science) of Affinage in Wisconsin
Cheese grader and affineur Chris Gentine sees infinite possibilities in transforming an already excellent cheddar into something new and unexpected. Along with his wife, Julie, Gentine is at the creat...Show More
10) Doris Hồ-Kane on the Power of Punk Music, and Creating a Living Archive Through Food and Art in Brooklyn (By Way of Vietnam)
Since opening Bạn Bè last year, Doris Hồ-Kane has sparked a fast-growing following. As New York City’s first Vietnamese American bakery, the small-but-ambitious space is dedicated to celebrating V...Show More