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Edible Austin

Jackie Letelier

By Layne Lynch Photography by Marc Brown Over the years, pâté has become one of the world’s most revered delicatessen; the crowning glory on warm slices

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Preserving Traditions Through Noodles

By Kristi WillisPhotography by Pauline Stevens Early on Monday and Wednesday mornings, in the converted century-old schoolhouse at the Texas Wendish Heritage Society, three women

Bakery Lorraine

By Sharon ArmstrongPhotography by Marks Moore Photography On an early September morning in San Antonio, the rain comes down in sheets. It streams down gutters

And On That Farm

Last July, in the middle of the worst drought Texas had seen in a hundred years, Kathleen Mooney of Wimberley’s EIEIO’s Organic Farm was out

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Tooling Around

Photography by Nicole Lessin It was logical that the Holly Neighborhood Coalition would ask a team of public interest design graduate students at the University

Never Too Old To Grow

Senior citizens prefer card games indoors; gardening is best suited to the young and physically fit; and older people can’t tolerate the Texas sun. These

Publisher’s Note

Welcome to The Heirloom Issue. Focusing our winter issue  on food culture, tradition and heritage foodways is not new to us. Last winter, for example,

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COOKS! 2012

COOKS!   Welcome to our third annual edition of Edible Austin COOKS! This year’s issue is packed with recipes and tips for the home cook.

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COOKS! 2013

COOKS!   Welcome to our fourth—and final—annual edition of Edible Austin COOKS! We hope you enjoy reading it with as much pleasure as we had

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Heirloom 2013

The Heirloom Issue WE SUPPORT URBAN FARMS“Eating is an agricultural act.” —Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of EatingEvery time we lift our fork we are supporting

Pan to Print

By Kristi Willis Creating personal cookbooks is an age-old tradition that used to require not only publishing prowess but hour upon hour of labor spent