People

A Real Field Trip

As educators know, teaching is easiest and most effective when learning feels like play. Some lessons, like grammar, may be harder to turn into games, but other lessons can easily become adventures ...

My Life in Food

The smell of onion, garlic and spices fills my noisy and chaotic school cafeteria during lunchtime. Today in my lunch, I have basmati rice and a lentil soup with vegetables called dhal. Whenever I ...

Svante's Ranch Direct

In 1838, the land that would soon be officially recognized as Central Texas was ripe, fertile and largely untouched, and the first Swedish immigrant to arrive and make his way in the pioneering ...

Breakfast in the Classroom

Breakfast is generally considered to be the most important meal of the day. And while your mileage may vary depending on what’s on the menu, the adage is especially true when applied to kids. In ...

Lettering in Food

The TRA Brings Cooking Back to School Remember fellow students who secretly wanted to take Home Economics in high school but feared ridicule? Kids today don’t have that problem, at least not if ...

From Soup to Nuts

What do you do after completing a one-woman goodwill running tour across America for nine months? Move to Austin sight unseen, of course, and start delivering homemade soup and energy balls on a bike ...

Back to the Grind

Coffee had been in the blood of the Alvarado family for five generations, until Nicaragua decided it shouldn’t be. During the country’s Contra War in the 1980s, the government seized the ...

Erin Wade

The sun-drenched South Austin space where Erin Wade set up her salad-focused restaurant Vinaigrette once housed a greasy old Pig Stand fast-food joint. That irony isn’t lost on someone who serves ...

Bypassing the Bubble

How Some Austin Restaurateurs are Thriving in a Less Than Stable ...

Painter of Cakes

Danaë Smale is a palette knife- and paintbrush-wielding abstract painter who happens to use buttercream as her medium and sponge cake as her canvas. “My customers are often bohemian brides and ...