When Judy Willcott opened the doors at Texas French Bread Bakery (TFB) in 1981, Austinites lined up around the block on Saturday mornings for hot ham and cheese croissants and petit pains au ...
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Chef and cooking instructor Jam Sanitchat tends not to over-extol the virtues of her native Thai cuisine. “I’m from Thailand, so what else would I think?” she says. “But, ...
Read more: East Meets West...Mary
The Whip In convenience store—long known for its vast beer and wine selection and commitment to local foods—recently added another non-7-11 amenity: down-home cooking. “If by down-home, you ...
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The St. Elias Mediterranean Festival, Austin’s oldest food-based celebration, turns 75 this fall—young compared to the families who organized it. “Austin had a large concentration of Lebanese ...
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By MM Pack Photography by Jody Horton
It’s been said that there are three great cuisines in the world: French, Chinese and Turkish. Yet while most of us have at least a nodding acquaintance with ...
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By MM Pack
Edible bamboo? You mean those bite-sized, colorless rectangles that come in cans? Well…yes and no. David Cater, of Utility Research Garden, is on a mission to change our ...
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By Susan M. Cashin Photography by Susan M. Cashin
One Thanksgiving seven years ago, Fred and Yvonne Reinhardt of Houston decided to gather with their expatriate friends for a ...
Read more: Heart, History and Soul in a Pot
By Katie Cantrell Photography by Katie Cantrell
The following is a legend every Central Texan ought to know.
Long ago, in a corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire now known as the ...
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By Lisa Jones Photography by Jenna Noel
Aster Kassaye of Aster’s Ethiopian Restaurant loves to talk about her culture. In her country, she says, people hate to eat alone—a ...
Read more: Ethiopia Rules