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Chicken & Rice

by Mary Bryce • Illustration by Bambi Edlund No one told me how much of life is just saying goodbye. Because I was on a

Fermenting

 by Marilyn McCray, Octane Press Before the advent of modern-day canning, food was preserved by the process of fermentation. The simplest type of fermentation with

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Standing the Taste of Time

by Terry Thompson-Anderson and Russell Kane • Photography by Knoxy Fall Creek Vineyards is celebrating the 35th anniversary of making its first wines, and although the

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Jack Allen’s Kitchen

 On Saturday mornings, you’ll find me at the farmers market. Actually, I go to a few of them throughout town. Most open at 9 a.m.,

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The Circle, Delicious and Unbroken

by Les McGehee • Photography by Dustin Meyer The multisensory siren song calls like a spinning Julie Andrews on a nearby Alp. You are defenseless,

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Rice in Texas

by MM Pack For much of the world’s population, especially in Asia, rice is the most widely eaten staple food. Forty percent of humans—mostly in

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Turning a New Leaf

by Elizabeth Winslow • Photography by Thomas Winslow What would you do if you found yourself suddenly uprooted from everyone and everything you know, far

Assured Sharp

by Claire Cella • Photography by Melanie Grizzel Strolling through the Texas Farmers Market at Mueller, I hear it: the gentle, unbroken purr marked by

Barbacoa

by Meredith Bethune If you order barbacoa in  in most parts of Texas, you’ll most likely end up with savory, slow-roasted beef—usually served on, or

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44 Farms

by Layne Victoria Lynch • Photography by Andy Sams When Bob McClaren, current owner and CEO of 44 Farms, reorganized and revived his family’s fertile

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John and Kendall Antonelli

by Kristi Willis • Photography by Kate LeSueur As the owners of Antonelli’s Cheese Shop prepared to ring in the New Year in 2013, there

On Being a Chef Activist

by Dan Barber The idea of chef as activist is a relatively new one. It was the nouvelle cuisine chefs of the 1960s who, breaking