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May 25, 2012

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Liquid Ingredients

By Elizabeth Winslow Photography by Whitney Arostegui  You’ve no doubt heard the sage advice handed down from cook to cook that you should never cook

Lisa Byrd

By Layne Lynch Photography by Marc Brown  As is typical with busy, overly scheduled people, it had been three or four years since Lisa Byrd

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Pairings-Pint to Plate

By Kristi Willis Photography by Jenna Noel  It’s not unusual to be offered a wine pairing with a particular dish at a restaurant, and increasingly,

Christian Remde

By Megan Myers Photography by Marc Brown  On a muggy, overcast Thursday in the middle of Austin’s South By Southwest film, interactive and music festival,

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Mill-King Market & Creamery

Story and Photography By Kelly Yandell Waco, like many growing Texas cities, is ever expanding into the countryside. But just west of Waco, away from

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The State of Texas Milk

Story and Photography By Kelly Yandell  There is a certain pastoral simplicity conjured up by the idea of drinking a frosty glass of milk; perhaps

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Argus Cidery

By Veronica Meewes Photography by Dustin Meyer  You might say that Argus Cidery founder Wes Mickel likes a challenge. The 27-year-old moved to Austin knowing

Kate Payne

By Shannon Oelrich Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo  Alfie, an orange and white tomcat, saunters onto the kitchen table and inspects the offerings: orange vanilla

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La Cruz de Comal

By Jessica Dupuy Photography by Andy Sams  There’s a little winery near Canyon Lake that’s turning heads among Central Texas’s top wine experts. La Cruz

Urban Patchwork

By Veronica Meewes Photography by Whitney Arostegui  Urban Patchwork (UP), Austin’s first nonprofit neighborhood farm network, launched three years ago, very appropriately, on Independence Day. “We

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Woerner’s

Zane and Anne Beckmann, owners of Woerner Feed & Garden Supply since 2006, are on a mission to offer their customers choices in how they

Hillside Farmacy

Typically, a restaurateur starts with a menu concept and builds the space and decor around it. The creative minds behind Hillside Farmacy, however, did things