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tour guide/speaker

Tours:

  • 2010 Houston Mexican Market Tour, Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • 2010 Houston Barbecue Tour, Culinary Tours, Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • 2010 Houston Barbecue Tour for Visiting Media, Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • 2008 American Society of Travel Writers, lecture and half day Houston barbecue tour.
  • 2007 Central Texas Barbecue Bus Tour, Texas Hill Country Food and Wine Festival
  • 2005 Central Texas Barbecue Bus Tour, Southern Foodways Alliance Field Trip

Speaking Engagements:

  • 2010 Dinner Speaker: Baton Rouge Club, Wine and Oyster Dinner
  • 2010 Ben E. Keith Food Show: Oyster Lecture and Demonstration
  • 2010 Louisiana Oyster Producers Association Conference, New Orleans
  • 2009 “Trends in Beef Buying and Home Butchering,” Rosenthal Lecture Series, Meat Science Center, Texas A&M
  • 2008 Dallas Museum of Art, Laugh Your Lunch Off Lecture Series, Texas Cowboy Cooking demonstration and hour lecture
  • 2008 Pillsbury Bake-Off, Dallas, Created dinner menu to illustrate a half hour lecture on Texas foodways for visiting newspaper editors
  • 2007 Forum Universal de las Culturas, Monterrey, Mexico, Lecture and cooking demonstration on the Tex-Mex invasion of Mexico.

Teaching:

  • 2009 Barbecue 101, Texas A&M Department of Meat Science
  • 2008 Wonderworks, Non-fiction class, Rice University
  • 2007 Symposium for Professional Food Writers, Greenbriar, West Virginia
  • 2006 Anthropology of Food class, Glasscock School of Continuing Education

Academic Papers:

  • 2008 Southern Foodways Symposium
    Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: Bootlegging Dr Pepper and Mexican Coke
  • 2006 Southern Foodways Symposium, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: Theme: The Gulf South: Topic: Galveston Bay, A Seafood Treasure Trove
  • 2002 American Studies Association, Houston Conference, Seminar on Fusion, Creolization and Hybridization in Culinary Culture. Topic:
 Six Degrees of Hybridization
  • 2002 Southern Foodways Symposium, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi: Theme: Barbecue: Smoke, Sauce and History. Topic: Barbecue in Black and White, Carving the Racism Out of Texas Barbecue Mythology.
  • 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison “Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food as Culture” Topic: “The Reign of Terroir”