Food Artisans

Denise LoSchiavo, retirement home director, believes in home-cooked dinners.   “The ham and turnips are baking,” she says one recent afternoon. “I’m also cooking three

“I  keep a bottle of olive oil on my table the way other people keep ketchup,” says Jack Peters of Bella Vista Ranch. In fact,

“The loaves just came out of the oven,” says Jonathan Panzer, born salesman. “Would you like to procure a challah?” The smell of just-baked challah—the

Austin’s Clara Serrano is a young woman who sometimes seems to have spent her childhood in the early 1900s. Living on a five-acre farm in

After running the Barr Mansion Artisan Ballroom for more than 20 years, Melanie McAfee had catered a lot of meals and staged a lot of

 Twenty-five years ago, Lecia Duke graduated from architecture school and found herself unhappily employed at a large Nashville firm. “I wasn’t happy, but I wasn’t

By Kim Lane Photography by Jenna Noel There are adults among us who think the world has become entirely too handheld, too convenient, too portable.

By Andrea Vanscoy Photography by Jenna Noel One day, Tom left his mainstream job of 17 years to spend several months reading library books on

By Lucinda HutsonPhotography by John Pozdro “As is the gardener, so is the garden,” say the old-timers. What would they think of my gardens? I

By Betsy Levy    Photography by Carole Topalian It’s high noon at the Austin Whole Foods flagship store, and serious foodies are pouring through the sliding