now in season

August 2015

Teresa Wilson

by Anna Toon • Photography by knoxy Teresa Wilson speaks quite softly. It’s a strain to hear her voice above the passing cars on Airport

Fermented Relishes

by Kate Payne • Photography by Jo Ann Santangelo Thanksgiving and holiday feasts are times to fill plates, enjoy the company of friends and family

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The Quesadas

by Claire Cella • Photography by Kate LeSueur The Quesada family is prismatic. Not because of the rainbow-striped skirt that greets me at their front

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Ben Runkle and Natalie Davis

by Abby Carney • Photography by Kate LeSueur As Natalie Davis kneads out the bottom layer of lamb for a baked kibbeh, her husband Ben

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Jim Spencer

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur “I never cook,” says KXAN weather forecaster Jim Spencer. “It’s embarrassing. I like to blame it on

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Kathie Sever

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur On a hot evening in early June, Kathie Lebeck Sever starts dinner by making a fire in

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Chief Art Acevedo

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo arrives home with his 8-year-old son Jake and a load of groceries,

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Barbara Chisholm

by Robin Chotzinoff • Photography by Kate LeSueur At 3 p.m. on the afternoon of a 7 p.m. dinner party, actress Barbara Chisholm is as

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Danny Palumbo

by Steve Wilson • Photography by Kate LeSueur “I had to drunk-dial my mom for the ratio of shell to filling on these things,” says