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An Authentic Gig

Any non-famous musician knows the tune. Austin drummer Joe Humel was very busy playing in five different bands, working out of town on weekends and bouncing at Momo’s. But then… (Cue epiphany ...

Lunchbox Legend

By Robin Chotzinoff Photography by Rebecca Fondren As founder and longtime owner of Austin’s Sweetish Hill Bakery, Patricia Bauer-Slate was known not just for her fine European-style cakes, ...

The Little Pie That Could

Jen Biddle was pursuing a graduate degree in social work when she stumbled, accidentally, into the pie business “I was working part-time at Waterloo Records,” she remembers, “and Lyle Lovett ...

Older, Wiser, Better Fed

Denise LoSchiavo, retirement home director, believes in home-cooked dinners. “The ham and turnips are baking,” she says one recent afternoon. “I’m also cooking three chickens, beets ...

Into the Gulf: Stoops & Son

By William Norris Photography by William Norris Uchi, Fino, Starlite, Wink, Asti, Zoot, Aquarelle, Dai Due Supper Club—John “PJ” Stoops’s client list reads like a ...

Hill Country Gold

“I keep a bottle of olive oil on my table the way other people keep ketchup,” says Jack Peters of Bella Vista Ranch. In fact, he even drinks it straight, and claims that two ounces of the ...

Give Us This Day Our Weekly Bread

“The loaves just came out of the oven,” says Jonathan Panzer, born salesman. “Would you like to procure a challah?” The smell of just-baked challah—the braided, egg-glazed bread Jews ...

More Flavor, Less Trash

Austin’s Clara Serrano is a young woman who sometimes seems to have spent her childhood in the early 1900s. Living on a five-acre farm in upstate New York in a family of 18 Colombian ...