Texas Locavore

The Austin Chronicle’s Mick Vann proffered a great primer on pork last week. My favorite part of the package? This handy list of Austin restaurants that cure their own.  (Also very helpful is this list of local pork producers, and where to find their goods.) A dozen different eateries around town are curing cuts of pork in-house, and the results are very tasty. At Cissi’s Market, house-cured pork studs the All-Day Breakfast Salad and wraps around Grilled Medjool Dates, themselves filled with pecorino and marcona almonds (left). The latter is a must-try, if you haven’t already enjoyed it.