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November 2011

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Red Rabbit Bakery

By Andrea AbelPhotography by Andy Sams It started with a movie—a political documentary, to be exact: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. Cathy Ruiz watched

Avellan-and-Stryk

Joaquin Avellan-Dos Lunas Cheese

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Whitney Arostegui (above) and Chris Corona (below) After years spent working in the film industry, Joaquin Avellan fell into his new

In.gredients

Christian Lane remembers that his grandmother hated to throw anything away. “She was always reusing margarine tubs for everything,” he says. “She had this Depression-era

Bake a Wish

What’s the strangest cake request Karen Nichols has ever received? It would have to be the one from a nine-year-old boy who wanted “a giant

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Pouch Potato

Photography by Teresa Nguyen In a little stone house near Zilker Park, beneath a sprawling oak tree and behind some very prickly cactus plants, lies

Publisher’s Note

“Eating is an agricultural act.”—from “The Pleasures of Eating” from What Are People For? by Wendell Berry From the bottom of my heart, I cannot

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COOKS! 2011

Welcome  Welcome to our second annual edition of Edible Austin COOKS! We hope you enjoy reading it with as much pleasure as we had in