Food

God Save the Pudding

When we brought our four small children from “England’s Green and Pleasant Land” to Texas in 1975, we felt it imperative that they learned our long-standing British traditions and customs. It ...

In the late 1500s, Spanish explorers arrived in the area around what is known today as El Paso, Texas, along the Mexican-American border. With them, they brought livestock, such as cows and goats, ...

Mapping the True Texas Hold'Em

If you want to read a book about Neapolitan pizza, Chinese dumplings or American hamburgers, you have many choices. But where’s the book that maps and makes sense of the societal, cultural and ...

Gazpacho Borracho

Hooray! It’s the season for eating outdoors—starlit suppers, Sunday brunches and fiestas al fresco. On weekends, many Tex-Mex families celebrate tardeadas—leisurely, afternoon backyard ...

Chicken & Rice

by Mary Bryce • Illustration by Bambi Edlund No one told me how much of life is just saying goodbye. Because I was on a plane today, and then on a bus, and somewhere in between the two, I saw ...

Turkish Mantı

by Elif Selvili • Photography by Luis Gutierrez Every lucky family has a tradition that revolves around food. For my family, that tradition means three generations of Turkish women and ...

Frijoles a la Charra

by Lucinda Hutson Tantalizing whiffs of smoky bacon, piquant chilies, onions, oregano and the unmistakably rich and earthy scent of beans simmered with beer escape in steamy, aromatic puffs from the ...

The Flavor of Tradition

by Iliana de la Vega and Isabel Torrealba Cereals are the foundation of all great civilizations—Europe had wheat, Asia had rice and Mesoamerica flourished on corn. Indeed, corn is the backbone ...

Last of the Larder

by Soll Sussman • Photography by Whitney Martin It’s near the end of the month, the next paycheck is still a couple of long days away and the pantry is mostly bare, save for things like a ...

Beyond the Czech-ered Cloth

When it’s picnic season, tens of thousands of people have their hunger and souls satisfied at many Texas churches in communities with Czech lineage. Originally, parishioners would cook at home ...