Boots in the Oven

How've you been? Oh, so glad to hear it! Coffee? Tea?

cough cough cough HELLO!

How is everyone?  Doing well, I hope?  Enjoying the beginnings of fall - well, at least you fellow Northern Hemisphere-ers?  Drinking cider and all that, fighting off the first of the hopefully few winter colds?

I've been casting around at what direction to take this blog for a while now, and while I've been doing that I've just sort of been letting it fester quietly over here in our tiny corner of the internet.  

So, while Boots in the Oven ferments for a while prior to reemerging as a butterfly or something, I've blown the dust off my old Tumblr at Bootlings.  Please come visit over there - have some tea, set a spell.  I'll see you back here soon!

-Rachel

Boots in Print.

While we've been industriously not blogging (I've sold my creative energy to Terrence Malick for the time being and Rachel is busily re-establishing our life in Austin) we have managed to put together a couple of fun articles for Edible Austin. Edible Austin is a great local magazine that's part of the nationwide Edible Communities. If you haven't heard of them you should definitely check them out; chances are there's a version in your part of the US, all stuffed with helpful info.

If you want to see our jaunty contributions (read the damn things already), EA has handily published an online version in addition to the magazine itself (which has pretty formatting and even more pictures so pick it up if you see it.)

Rachel's article is on the Feather Barons of South Africa and I have a first-hand account of hunting Tej through the wilds of Ethiopia.

Have a gander to tide you over while we polish up the final posts of our around the world insanity trip- coming soon to a website near you. Well, this one actually.

And for your trouble please enjoy this rooster from Bali that's been dyed pink because he's got too much steez.

Boots in the Paper!

Over the weekend, a very exciting thing happened!

Reshma Kirpalani at the Austin American-Statesman wrote an article! About us!

I'm pretty terrible at self-promotion, so I find the whole thing more than a little embarassing (it took me ten times starting to read the article before I was able to finish it). But it is pretty cool to be in print like this!  

Here's a link:

Austin couple goes around the world in 14 months in search of local food

Thanks to you guys who followed us around the world!  It's been, and will continue to be, a wild ride.

Hello, world!

...hi!

You, er, may have noticed that there haven't been any posts here for a week.  OK, more than a week.  It's because we are back, in Texas, and life has once more gotten in the way of our blogging!  No worries, we'll be back to talking about the rest of our trip soon.  Look for continuing posts on Malaysia, then on to Singapore and Indonesia!  

Here's a taste:

See you soon!

Big sloppy IOU's for everyone!

I just want to take this opportunity to give it up for all of our awesome friends and everything you've done for us in the past few weeks.  Andy lent Logan a big, seriously puffy warm coat, AND he and Jackson took me out for a night of Chinese food and comedy.  Kim not only let me borrow a wonderfully toasty ski parka and fed me beef stew on a ridiculously cold, lonely day, she allowed me to hold her scrumptious nine-week-old baby girl. Crystal and Justin introduced me to my new favorite Mexican joint in Austin, took me out for grilled herring with bacon foam, fed me delicious homemade food, and bought me a glass of wine at Cipollina when I "forgot" my "wallet" at "home".  Erin and Nat kept me supplied in laughs, lunch dates, tasty wine, grappa, mezcal, and giant Korean barbecue spreads, and risked their very own personal safeties driving me to the airport when there were twenty-seven feet of snow (that's 0.7 inches in Austin-speak) on the ground - only spinning out once!  Ryan has even taken in the fuzzbucket cats for a week and a half so I wouldn't worry about them being all by their lonesome - and he's been sending me photos to show how well they're doing and the assistance they've been giving him in his work.

You guys are all great and I can't thank you enough.  You made the two and a half weeks without Logan go by so much faster and more happily than I could have hoped and I'm going to miss the hell out of all of you when we take off for our trip.

And now I know that I need to drag Logan to cho sun gal bi in Austin for some beef tongue when we get back to town.