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Author: Mike Merrill

Mike Merrill is a digital strategist and professional speaker. By day he serves as Sr. Enterprise Account Executive for Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Mike founded the Social Media Club of Dallas in the fall of 2009, now named Social Media Dallas. He helped organize the first Ignite Dallas, is an advisor to several startups in Dallas and has a thing for bacon since he grew up on a pig farm. Learn more about that here in his TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpsTED3nOA
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Julia Pearl Southern Cuisine opens in Plano

February 4, 2016April 18, 2017 Mike Merrill

You are in for a treat with Julia Pearl Southern Cuisine coming to Plano this past week. I recently attended their private media dinner to a room full of hungry foodies. Thanks to Chefs Tre Wilcox and Germaine Brown, formerly of Abacus, we were all in for a treat. One of Continue Reading

Casual FoodFood News

World of Beer Launches Fall Plates and Pints Menu

October 27, 2015June 29, 2017 Mike Merrill
World of Beer Meatloaf Sliders

World of Beer has launched their new Fall Plates and Pints Menu and invited John Valadez and I to their Plano, TX location to sample the new cold weather classics. Taking advantage of the skyrocketing growth of local breweries World of Beer offers over 50 craft beers on tap, over Continue Reading

Casual Food

Best BBQ in Texas

September 30, 2011October 19, 2015 Mike Merrill
Best BBQ in Texas

This past weekend I completed the Central TX BBQ Tour in search of the Best BBQ. Chevy Texas asked me to participate as part of their Chevy Mancations campaign. If you would have told me I would have eaten at seven BBQ places in less less than two days I Continue Reading

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Smuckers Uncrustables Lives Up To The Hype

March 8, 2011March 7, 2011 Mike Merrill3 Comments

For my first post on the Dallas Food Nerd blog I felt it only fitting to start with something my kids having been raving about. A week ago my wife picked up a box of Smuckers Uncrustables at the grocery store. I wasn’t aware we even had them in the Continue Reading