Food

Home of the “ best pimento cheese in Houston ” according to The Houston Press and the “ judges favorite ” pimento cheese from My Table magazine.    examiner.com reported that “ customers gushed over it to no end. ” The Houston Chronicle warns its readers “ don't miss the triple ginger cookies. ” And The Ultimate Food Lover's Guide to Houston says that Words and Food has “ the best ready to eat food anywhere. ”

Words & Food offers much more than pimento cheese. Freshly made soups, fantastic citrusy hummus, sweet treats, heaps of cookies and down home good entrees. All products are hand crafted and made in small batches with great care and quality ingredients. Local produce and farm fresh eggs are used. Why cook when you can microwave Janice's incredible food?

Markets

Tuesdays - Houston Farmers Market at Rice University

Houston Farmers Market was the first farmers market in Houston certified by the state of Texas. Tuesdays on Rice University Campus from 3:30 to 7:00 PM. The Tuesday Market is located in the parking lot south of Rice Stadium, University Blvd near Montclair. Parking in the lot at Entrance 9 or in the Greenbriar Lot, entrances 13A and 13B.

Saturdays - Urban Harvest Farmers Market

Urban Harvest Farmers Market. On Saturday the market is open from 8:00 am until noon - be like a regular, bring a canvas bag, carry small bills, and get there early . Located just north of the intersection of Richmond and Eastside and behind an office building. Eastside has a stoplight and it's inbetween Kirby and Buffalo Speedway.

Three times per year - Urban Market Houston

The second Urban Market Houston of 2010 is Sunday the 14th of May from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. Located near the Heights in the Knights of Columbus field on 607 East Whitney, this is a high end outdoor antiques market with food available from Words & Food.

Offerings

Hope to see you at a farmers’ market real soon!

Words

posted 13 February 2010

Cooks Tour - a dining blog with Alison Cook - After visiting Reading Terminal in Philadelphia, Cook "... fantasized about the prepared foods that would tempt Houstonians and show the world the genius of our Gulf Coast melting pot cuisine. Let's face it, nobody's going to visit Houston for our scenery, but they just might visit for our fabulous food." Cook's view of Houston's Reading Terminal included this comment - "Words and Food by Janice Schindeler would dispense everything from soups to the world's yummiest pimento cheese."

posted 11 November 2009

Check out "Jim Gossen on the Half Shell" by Janice Schindeler in the December-January issue of My Table .

posted 29 Nov 2009

culturemap (www.culturemap.com), a new online magazine and “mapazine” headquartered in Houston, Texas brings hyper-localized intelligence and insight to each city that it covers. Check out Janice's recent contributions on Houston food issues.

posted 20 Oct 2009

Cooks Tour - a dining blog with Alison Cook - "I am so taken by my friend Janice Schindeler's hand-made pizza quilt that I just had to show it to you. It's a Houston food-world classic that comes with detachable toppings--mushrooms, at the moment, soon to be joined by slices of pepperoni."

Janice

Janice Schindeler, the energy behind the delicious products from Words and Food, has been a member of the Houston food scene since the late 1970s. Janice started as hostess and line cook at the original Ouisie's on Sunset, was a locum tenens cook for 120 Portland, made desserts for Bono's and River Cafe, was food editor for Houston Home and Garden, wrote restaurant reviews for the Houston Press, was cuisine editor for Ultra, was the food editor for the Houston Post, survived being dragged overseas for her partner's work, contributed a chapter on Texas food for America A Culinary Journey, wrote occasional columns for Country Home magazine, put out a couple editions of Family Circle's Light and Easy magazine, was food editor for the Chronicle, was restaurant critic for Houston Modern Luxury, writes from time to time for My Table magazine, and .............

But her encounters with food started even earlier than her arrival to Houston. "I lived in a tent and cooked over a campfire for a summer, worked and lived and ate steamed veggies and brown rice daily at a tropical fish farm commune in west Miami, survived a trip around America in a 1952 Chevy van (with the aid of an old Coleman stove), and was crowned apple-pie-baking princess of Mount Gretna."

Contact Janice

713.240.3256
or
jaschindeler@gmail.com