Many chefs around North Texas prefer the pork from Chubby Dog Farms. The owners recently decided to sell the business and have sold to Driftwood Meadows who will continue to service many local restaurants.
Up Your Culinary Game With These Locally Made Virtual Cooking Classes
Brush up on your trussing skills or learn to butcher a whole hog. Foster your fermenting techniques or ghee-making prowess.
By Eve Hill-Agnus
Published in
Food & Drink
February 25, 2021
1:05 pm
The ice has disappeared and the snow has thawed. The temperatures seem to indicate one thing. Spring is coming. Do you remember last spring, when you scarcely knew if you would be able to cook at home?
We’re still cooking from home one year later. While you may have started uncertain if you could boil an egg, the sourdough revolution and DIY dalgona coffee phases have intervened, and you’re now ready to make kombucha and butcher a hog.
A Farm-to-Fork Dinner at Profound Microfarms Was a Delicious Escape From a Hellish Week
Joel Orsini s six-course feast was sublime.
By Kathy Wise
Published in
FrontBurner
February 22, 2021
11:50 am
Feeling cooped up and claustrophobic, I had naively signed up a couple of weeks ago for Profound Foods’ Valentine’s Day dinner in their greenhouse in Lucas. Due to Snowpocalypse 2021, the event was delayed until Saturday, when the sun emerged and the thaw began.
Jeff Bednar and his wife, Lee, founded Profound Microfarms as a hydroponic and aquaponic farm in 2014, where they grew rare culinary herbs, edible flowers, and microgreens for chefs in North Texas. A few years later, they started collaborating with other local farms, such as Cartermere Farms in Celina and Chubby Dog Farm in Crockett, to coordinate deliveries and reduce costs, and Profound Foods was born.
News Bites: Ebb & Flow Heads to Plano and Mot Hai Ba Hosts a Pig Roast
SideDish’s weekly digest of need-to-know dining happenings in Dallas.
By Rosin Saez
Published in
Food & Drink
January 27, 2021
11:33 am
News Bites, from quiet closures to opening updates and everything in between, including coronavirus-related intel.
The Booze Brothers
Deep Ellum bar Ebb & Flow is in expansion mode. A sibling location is slated for The Shops at Legacy in Plano. Ebb & Flow, owned and operated by Dallas Hale (Shell Shack, Sushi Marquee) and his brother Eric Bradford, will open in the space formerly occupied by pizzeria Coal Vines, taking over its roomy restaurant and viney, garden-like patio. Expect the same selection of cocktails and vast assortment of food akaushi beef burgers and patty melts, cubano egg rolls, grilled mahi mahi, ratatouille that made its Deep Ellum location so popular. Its target opening is March.