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Edible Austin

A Mess of Greens

By Elizabeth Engelhardt Toward the end of a project I was working on about my home region—the mountains of Appalachia—I stumbled across repeated references to

Bad-Dog-Bar-Crafts

Lara Nixon’s Bitters

By Veronica MeewesPhotography by Dustin Meyer As handcrafted pickles and house-cured meats continue to grace the pages of menus across town, and waiters wax at

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The Total Catch

By Kelly Yandell Photography of pier (below) by Kelly YandellPhotography of fish, courtesy of  P.J. Stoops, Louisiana Foods I am a fishing kid. Or rather, I

David Kogan

By Soll SussmanPhotography by Aimee Wenske Running just a few minutes late because of a kosher Parmesan cheese emergency, David Kogan settles into a comfortable

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Lynne Rossetto Kasper on Edible Radio

Growing Home host Marla Camp visits with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host and co-creator of the American Public Media radio show “The Splendid Table,” about Lynne’s

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Red Rabbit Bakery

By Andrea AbelPhotography by Andy Sams It started with a movie—a political documentary, to be exact: Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. Cathy Ruiz watched

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Joaquin Avellan-Dos Lunas Cheese

By Elizabeth WinslowPhotography by Whitney Arostegui (above) and Chris Corona (below) After years spent working in the film industry, Joaquin Avellan fell into his new

In.gredients

Christian Lane remembers that his grandmother hated to throw anything away. “She was always reusing margarine tubs for everything,” he says. “She had this Depression-era

Bake a Wish

What’s the strangest cake request Karen Nichols has ever received? It would have to be the one from a nine-year-old boy who wanted “a giant

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Pouch Potato

Photography by Teresa Nguyen In a little stone house near Zilker Park, beneath a sprawling oak tree and behind some very prickly cactus plants, lies