ACL Grub, by the Numbers; Old Lady Corn Plant Thieves

AUSTIN—This week Eater Austin talks to Lenoir's Jessica Maher about culinary power couples and food hangovers, gets a meaty look inside the restaurant named Bacon and tallies up the tons and tons of food to be served at the Austin City Limits festival this weekend. [EATX]

DALLAS—Eater Dallas gets an earful from local produce master Tom Spicer, who's sick of pop-up dinners not buying his fruit and vegetables, has the details on Chef Jeff Harris' new gig as executive chef at Bolsa and clucks at the old ladies who've been known to steal entire corn plants from the Garden Cafe. [EDFW]

STATEWIDE—While a report showed a large amount of people in Texas go hungry every year, another article shows that many of those are Hispanics, less depressing was the help that Central Texas businesses gave to wildfire victims by donating food and animal feed, and finally San Antonio restaurants have teamed up to help support their local artist community in a program called A La Carte. [HuffPo, Statesman, SABizJournal]

Photo [ACL/Flickr]