‘I’m proud of it’: How ‘Mama Nazy’ and her sons started Cafe Izmir 25 years ago
A trip to the U.S. from Iran turned into a longtime Dallas restaurant.
The Nazary family, Beau Nazary, left, Ali Nazary and their mother Nazy Nazary, at their restaurant Cafe Izmir in Dallas(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
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Shahnaz “Nazy” Movaffagh or “Mama Nazy,” as employees and regulars call her has been overseeing the pocket-size 1,200-square-foot Cafe Izmir on Greenville Avenue since it first opened 25 years ago on May 2. With the exception of holidays, she was at the restaurant until midnight every day of the week before the pandemic.
Nostalgic recipe: Old-Fashioned Homemade Banana Pudding
The key to this sublime dessert is the from-scratch vanilla pudding.
The ultimate homemade banana pudding recipe
By Kristen Massad
Old-Fashioned Homemade Banana Pudding is comfort layered in a bowl. It’s a perfect spring dessert that has created so many memories in the kitchen. And the way to make this nostalgic dessert really special is to make the vanilla pudding 100% from scratch.
Homemade vanilla pudding is so creamy and smooth and has the purest vanilla bean flavor. Although the key flavor in this dessert is bananas, the vanilla pudding does not actually have any bananas in it. It is made with only five ingredients and worth every minute of your time making it from scratch. Once the pudding is made, it is lightened up with fresh whipped cream, layered with freshly sliced bananas and Nilla wafers, and finished off with a dollop of fresh whipped cream.
Filipino barbecue spot on Texas farm road draws big crowds after Mike Chen visit
Old Rooster Creek Filipino/Asian American BBQ in Princeton is selling out after the YouTube food celebrity posted a video.
Josephine Cook prepares a plate of food at Old Rooster Creek Filipino Asian/American BBQ in Princeton, TX, on Apr. 24, 2021. (Jason Janik/Special Contributor)(Jason Janik / Special Contributor)
Old Rooster Creek Filipino/Asian American BBQ (ORC BBQ) in Princeton, Texas, has enjoyed a steady following since its 2017 debut. But after YouTube celebrity and now-Dallas-area-resident Mikey Chen featured the barbecue spot in a recent video, swarms of new customers queued up hours before opening time on Saturday. They were eager to try the lechón (whole roasted pig stuffed with herbs) and Filipino street foods that Chen touted in his April 20 video.
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What is bottled-in-bond? TX Whiskey debuts state’s first bourbon that meets strict standard
Produced at Fort Worth’s Firestone & Robertson distillery, the new bourbon follows strict regulatory standards set in 1897.
TX Whiskey debuts first bottled-in-bond bourbon.(Fireston and Robertson)
According to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, an organization that tracks alcohol trends, there were 130 craft distilleries in Texas in 2020, ranking the state fourth overall in the country. Consider that most distilleries make multiple spirits, and there are too many individual products to count especially if you’ve been sampling the goods.
With so much competition across the state, and even more across the country, it’s difficult to stand out. Position yourself in a particular category, like whiskey or the even-narrower bourbon silo, and the ability to innovate becomes exponentially harder. Yet across the state, enterprising distillers continue to find ways to separate themselves from the