American Profile: Cowboy Breakfast...

Big appetites and ranch traditions go hand in hand for two Texas chefs by Diane Welland | American Profile | 3/4/2010 View Complete Article Cowboys (and cowgirls) come in all different shapes and sizes, but two things are certain: Life on the range stirs up a big appetite and breakfast is serious business. “Cowboy chef” Grady Spears and “cowgirl chef” Paula Disbrowe explain cowboy cooking and what a...

Eat Like You’re Riding High on the Range...

By Lynn Nusom | For the Las Cruces Sun-News January 26, 2010 View Article Whether we drive an SUV, a Prius or a Pickup we forget that New Mexico was shaped in a large part by cowboys on horseback. When driving between Las Cruces and Albuquerque I often wonder about the arduous trek our forefathers made on horseback or in wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules. One thing our ancestors had in common with us is – they...

Grady Spears Makes Some Good Cowboy Grub...

This savory dish of ground meat, peppers and olives is the kind of "honest food" that epitomizes the "cowboy way" of cooking. Credit: Photograph by David Manning for "Cooking the Cowboy Way" by Grady Spears (Andrews McMeel, 2009) by Marialisa Calta | NewsOK.com January 15, 2010 View Article It’s fashionable to talk about “cuisine,” but what most of us understand is...

The Texas Food & Wine Gourmet...

by Terri Thompson Anderson December 1, 2009 Original Article I ran into Grady Spears, Texas’ favorite cowboy-turned-chef, a couple of months back at the West Texas Book Festival’s annual gala in Abilene, Texas. I think it was the third time we’d both been there with new cookbooks. Just when I thought Grady had covered the subject of cowboy cooking to the max, albeit with great style, there he was with yet another...

Charleston (SC) Post & Courier...

by Teresa Taylor November 6, 2009 Original Article Dutch’s Portobello Mushroom Burger Cowboy grub? By Teresa Taylor Friday, November 6, 2009 The ’50s and ’60s were the golden era of TV Westerns, the glorious days of “The Lone Ranger,” “Rawhide,” “Bonanza” and many more. I, like a gazillion other kids, dreamed of being a cowgirl, or cowboy, whatever. If I could gallop on a...