Curious Cook always is so pleased when readers share treasured recipes-of-the-past. Curious Cook received the El Rancho Clam Chowder recipe from E.G. of Bettendorf in response to a request published ...

On her 90th birthday, Janie Martinez recalled learning to cook from her mother and grandmother during the Great Depression in northern Travis County. "We had homegrown vegetables and the cows and ...

Almost six months after a change in ownership, house-made beer is once again flowing at El Rancho in Evergreen. On April 14, brewer Adam Gurtshaw debuted six original recipes on tap at the historic ...

Matt’s El Rancho has been a hotbed for celebrities since it first opened doors in 1952. Back then it was a small operation, run solely by owners Matt and Janie Martinez; Matt manning the front of the ...

Cathy Martinez Kreitz represents the second generation of her family to oversee operations at Matt's El Rancho. She was truly born into the business. "I wasn't actually born at the original restaurant ...

More than 20 years ago, I started writing about rancho cuisine - the cooking of the Spanish and Mexican land-grant ranchos who once lived in California - by documenting what I call the "traveling ...