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Fresh Look at Texas Terroir

The Premise Know the land. Respect the hands. This simple statement, found on every bottle of wine from The Grower Project, pretty much says it all about the venture cofounded by respected ...

Strange Magic

Jen Holmer El-Azzi lights up when talking about sourdough. “It’s like maaa-gic,” she says slowly and playfully with a big smile — like a good witch casting a ...

If there’s one flavor that truly embodies the spirit of Texas, mesquite just might be it. A native, drought-resistant crop, the mesquite tree serves as a source of firewood, smoking chips, pods and ...

Two Hives Honey

Tara Chapman didn’t expect to fall in love with bees. She took her first beekeeping class on a whim, seeking a bit of work-life balance. Instead of just an inspiring hobby, beekeeping quickly ...

Local Chefs Take the Stage at AF+WF

Every year the Austin Food + Wine Festival brings fantastic culinary talent to the city to share their knowledge — and their delicious eats — with festival attendees. This year, AF+WF is taking ...

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La Flaca Farm

From the outside, the ’80s ranch-style home on a cul-de-sac in Southwest Austin looks like any other, but follow a dirt path lined with raised beds of nasturtiums, Swiss chard and Turk’s cap to ...

By Hand

Amid the low hum of industrial-size fans in a shotgun-style warehouse near bustling South Lamar Boulevard, Gary Martin of Gary Martin Signs hunches over a set of sketches on onionskin paper, trying ...

Joel Mozersky

Despite what canned concoctions may lead people to believe, humble chicken soup can actually be a work of art. A broth, so goldenly hazy it’d make IPA drinkers jealous, surrounds crispy islands of ...

Cathy and Rob Lippincott

You might expect Cathy and Rob Lippincott, co-owners of Güero’s Taco Bar, to make Mexican food if they had you over for dinner. Instead, they choose a decidedly American menu: Baby back pork ribs, ...

Kelly Stocker

Nobody puts Kelly Stocker in a corner. This creative, entrepreneurial dynamo with a penchant for microphones, technology and all-things-still-weird-about-Austin is hard to pin down. She’s a DJ for ...