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The food words we love to hate

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Editor’s Note: Eat Drink D-FW is hosted by Dallas Morning News Food Editor Erin Booke with food reporters Sarah Blaskovich and Claire Ballor. Each week, our food journalists dish, debate and analyze local restaurant news, food and drink trends, tips for cooking and shopping, and other obsessions. You’ll also hear from chefs, farmers and foodies like yourself as we explore the people who made D-FW one of the most vibrant, diverse and ambitious food scenes in the country.

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The food words we love to hate

Everyone has food words that give them that “ick” feeling. Listen as host Erin Booke talks with food writers Sarah Blaskovich and Claire Ballor about the food words they love to hate. Can you guess which ones they are? And are the words actually annoying, or are people just annoying using them? Then writer Amanda Albee talks with Dallas chef Jessica Alonzo of Native Ferments TX — aka the “pickle Jedi” — about her most popular mustards and other vinegar-y treats. The team also dives into the Best Things they ate recently, which includes a cream cheese appetizer, a favorite dinner spot, and a kid-friendly cabbage soup.

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Dogue offers a gourmet menu with fresh, healthy food for your four-legged friend

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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — When Rahmi Massarweh graduated from Le Cordon Bleu, one of the most prestigious culinary schools in the world, he envisioned owning a high-end restaurant serving the most sophisticated palates.

His dream came true, even though his customers were connoisseurs of a different breed.

“If you would have asked me back then, ‘So when’s your dog cafe opening?’ I would have looked at you like, ‘What are you talking about? that’s a huge insult.'”

Welcome to Dogue (which rhymes with “Vogue”), a new French-style cafe in The Mission district, exclusively dedicated to the four-legged.

“It’s about healthy, good, real food,” Massarweh said. “The presentation is a vehicle to help shine a line on that.”

This isn’t Puppy Chow. It’s a three-course prix fixe meal at a very human price of $75 per customer on a Sunday brunch (customers can order à la carte on any other day).

On this Sunday, Massarweh was adding a 24-karat gold leaf to his gourmet pastry. And that was just the beginning.

“We’re doing a chicken and Chaga mushroom soup, and then we have a chicken skin waffle and charcoal flan, and our final course is steak tartare,” Massarweh said.

It all started when Masarweh and his wife Alejandra noticed their beloved rescue, a huge Mastiff named Grizzly, wasn’t eating his dry food. So, Massarweh did a little digging and started preparing fresh meals that easily rival top restaurants along the Champs-Élysées.

It’s already attracting an enthusiastic clientele. Cory and Bacon, two adorable Corgis wearing bow ties, flew in from out of town with their humans just to get a taste.

“They are our kids, we don’t have human children,” said Bacon’s mom, Ginger Sirlin. “We take them everywhere.”

Not everyone is going to fail over doggie gourmet. Critics have expressed outrage over high-priced pet meals as thousands go hungry in the Bay Area. But Massarweh said they’re missing the point.

“It’s difficult to verbalize just how much our animals mean to us,” he said. “I would do anything for them and if there’s any way that I can buy some time and make their lives happier or extend their lives by just one day I’ll do it.”

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New Mexican restaurant in Columbia offers more than just food | Local

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Tucked just south of Interstate 70 near US 63, a restaurant offers more than just Mexican food in the back of a small plaza.

Known as Los Comales, the restaurant has a small store with various goods from Mexico, ranging from shampoos and laundry detergents to produce. Varying shades of red paint, bright and warm, surround the refrigerated and freezer sections. Art yet to be hung lies nearby. Beyond that is a butcher counter that offers cuts of carnitas, chorizo, carne asada, al pastor and other specialty meats.

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