{"id":103927,"date":"2025-07-30T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103927\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:56:12","slug":"food-wine-recommends-these-5-h-e-b-branded-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103927\/","title":{"rendered":"Food & Wine recommends these 5 H-E-B-branded products"},"content":{"rendered":"

No store does more than H-E-B<\/a> to impress the editors of Food & Wine magazine. On July 28, the venerable publication sang the San Antonio company’s praises, naming the five best pre-made foods<\/a> every Texan should add to their grocery list.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, some H-E-B heavy-hitters made the cut, including True Texas BBQ spicy pickles, the tarragon pecan chicken salad, fresh guacamole, pre-marinated taco and fajita meats, and the store’s revered flour tortillas. To compose the list, food writer Derin Yilmaz, an H-E-B neophyte, polled a gaggle of the magazine’s editors who either live or have lived in the Lone Star State.<\/p>\n

“There was a time I didn’t know what H-E-B was and had never even heard the name,” Yilmaz said in her introduction.” When I revealed this naivet\u00e9 to my Texan best friend, she looked at me in shock…”<\/p>\n

Although Yilmaz’s admission might indeed be jaw-dropping, it wasn’t surprising that Food & Wine would want to celebrate the homegrown institution. If readers are making one of the magazine’s chef-driven recipes, chances are they are getting the ingredients at H-E-B. Many experts admitted to keeping the picks in their own pantries.<\/p>\n

Southern Smoke<\/a> founder and CultureMap Wine Guy Chris Shepherd<\/a>, who serves as the magazine’s “Editor in Chef,” called the pickles a must-try item and the fajita meat a “delicious timesaver,” but practically rhapsodized over the tortillas.<\/p>\n

“H-E-B arguably has some of the most delicious flour tortillas commercially made, and yes, those are in our refrigerator at home almost every day of the year,” said the Houston-based chef and TV personality.<\/p>\n

Food & Wine news editor Merlyn Miller, a native of Beaumont, raved about the convenient chicken salad, giving a secondary shout-out to the dill and mustard seed-seasoned pimento cheese.<\/p>\n

“Almost every time I go home, my mom has one of H-E-B’s prepared, mayo-based salads in her fridge, and this one is my favorite. It has crunchy pecans, sweet grapes, and isn’t overly dressed,” she told Yaniz of the chicken salad.<\/p>\n

It’s perhaps no surprise that H-E-B would blip on Food & Wine’s radar. Although a regional chain that only has locations in Texas and Mexico, it’s no stranger to national recognition. Its corporate culture regularly lands it on national lists, like a recent Fortune ranking of America’s most innovative companies<\/a>. The grocer’s charitable arms, most recently deployed in the aftermath of the July 4 Kerr County floods, have earned admiration far outside state borders.<\/p>\n

And chances are, if someone is making one of Food & Wine’s elaborate recipes in Texas, they are using leeks, herbs, and olive oil picked up at one of H-E-B’s hundreds of stores. Still, if Yaniz truly wants to have her mind blown, maybe she should ask her bestie about Central Market<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No store does more than H-E-B to impress the editors of Food & Wine magazine. On July 28,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[67059,49313,42033,40282,4345,980,12437,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-103927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-food-wine","9":"tag-grocery-stores","10":"tag-heb","11":"tag-honors","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-lists","14":"tag-rankings","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114940411063671754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}