now in season

Edible Austin

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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

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Roads Less Traveled

by Pamela Walker Monticello, New Mexico, home to fewer than 100 people, was founded in the mid-1900s and is nestled in a canyon at the

The State of Austin Food

by Steve Wilson Austin sports an impressive 6,000 restaurants, 1,000 food trailers and seemingly countless raves from adoring foodies. But on the flipside of this

Food Service Just Got Healthier

If standing at your job is the magical health cure some say it is, then restaurant employees should be set for life. At least, they

Of War and Wales

by Arden Egerton Imagine a beautiful land with mountains and not many roads…with a magical feel. You’re in Wales, a small country in the United

Dishing Secrets

by Megan Giller • Photography by Melanie Grizzel When Nikki Kaya was a teenager in Turkey, she didn’t want to go with her parents to