On Sunday afternoon, Gourmet Royale’s Deep Fried Seafood Gumbo Balls won Best Dish (savory) and Most Creative at the State Fair of Texas Big Tex Choice Awards. Only once before in the 17-year history ...

It’s a chilly Friday night when we slink into Bar Kroketa, squeezing winter coats and shopping bags past a packed-out crowd sitting up at the bar and along window-side ledges. We’re in the cosier, ...

It's 3 a.m., and about 10 people are working in a tiny kitchen in East Oak Cliff, fans whirring and music playing. They're racing to roll 100,000 gumbo balls by Friday. The Parish family's fried gumbo ...

What is a ball but an invitation to transcend? Hush puppies. Scotch eggs. Arancini. Name me a culture, and I’ll toss you a ball that can serve as its culinary avatar. Fried balls, as an institution, ...

Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving for Morning Edition host A Martinez without his grandmother's bolones de verde. The traditional Ecuadorian breakfast dish of deep-fried balls of chopped plantains ...

Food photos from the 2021 State Fair of Texas. Top left: Texas Easter Eggs, Top Right: Big Tex Bowl, Bottom Left: Country Fried Shrimp and Grits, Bottom Right: Deep-fried Peach Cobbler (State Fair of ...

MOST PEOPLE HAVE a taste or treasured recipe that zip lines them back in time to their mother’s or grandmother’s or favorite aunt’s kitchen. One memory I cherish is of my Sicilian grandmother and ...