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Edible Austin

A Trip Through Kolache History

By Katie Cantrell    Photography by Katie Cantrell The following is a legend every Central Texan ought to know. Long ago, in a corner of

The Supersizing of Local

By Robin Chotzinoff    Photography by Jenna Noel Scott Meyer and Scott Carlisle are friends who share similar jobs—Meyer as Associate Director of the University

Adventures in Eating

By Katherine Tanney    Photography by Katherine Tanney One night last spring, while chewing on the ingredients of my usual salad—greens, crumbled blue cheese, chopped

Saving Grace

By Bridget Weiss    Once there was a dinner to herald the very first cool front of the season. The A-list guests were excited enough to

Planting Your Fall Farmacy

Being an avid gardener, I’m afflicted with fall fever. No matter how busy my herbal practice keeps me, I take advantage of the more tolerable

What I Eat and Why: Simple Pleasures

By Louise DucotePhotography by Carole Topalian My sons and I love Laura Ingalls Wilder. The boys love all nine of her autobiographical books—about the American

Cast Iron Manifesto

By Todd Duplechan Photography by Christian Bowers My love affair with cast iron didn’t start in my mother’s kitchen. Like most families in the ’80s,

Dinner Parties On The Front Lines

By Anna Lappé    Photography by Jody Horton Beneath the shadow and the rumbling of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, I found myself recently with a gaggle of

Tomato Tying Time

By Jo Dwyer Photography by Farmer John  We all like to be needed in some way, don’t we? Being an especially attentive spouse, say, or

Backyard Gardens

By Betsy Levy    Photography by Carole Topalian It’s 8:00 a.m. on a summer Saturday and most Austinites are still in bed. But at Johnson’s

Tears In the Gravy, Circa 1974

By Mady Kaye     My mother’s cooking advice to her children was straightforward “Never apologize! Bring the food to the table, smile, and if it