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Herbal Healing

Tucked away on West Mary Street in the busy South Congress district, The Herb Bar is easy to pass by if you don’t know where to look. With a humble façade covered in ivy, it seems to blend into ...

Amid the low hum of industrial-size fans in a shotgun-style warehouse near bustling South Lamar Boulevard, Gary Martin of Gary Martin Signs hunches over a set of sketches on onionskin paper, trying ...

Joel Mozersky

Despite what canned concoctions may lead people to believe, humble chicken soup can actually be a work of art. A broth, so goldenly hazy it’d make IPA drinkers jealous, surrounds crispy islands of ...

Kim and Whit Hanks

When asked to prepare a meal with special meaning, Kim and Whit Hanks choose the classic Spanish dish paella—not only because it’s delicious, but because preparing it can be, should be, a team ...

The Ice Man Crafteth

The cold doesn’t seem to bother Javier Roberto Flores—not even the 10-degree deep-chill of the industrial freezer that houses the heart of his company, Fat Ice. With hardly a shiver, he walks ...

Sertodo Copper

“Did you find copper or did copper find you?” I ask Jonathan Beall, founder of the Mexico-based artisan copper cooperative, Sertodo Copper. “Let’s say we stumbled into each other,” he ...

Jeanine Donofrio and Jack Mathews

Rectangular white subway tiles wall the modern kitchen of Jeanine Donofrio and Jack Mathews. Clean black lines—the edges of appliances and shelves, the typescript of cookbooks—carve out this ...

The Bee Philosopher

Ask local author and bee expert Jack Bresette-Mills about beekeeping, and it soon becomes obvious that the act of tending bees is not a mere hobby for him, but rather something akin to a spiritual ...

A&K Woodworking And Design

If woodworkers Amanda McKeever and Khiem Nguyen were to open a restaurant, there’s no doubt that the decorating theme would be a fusion of midcentury modern and Asian. “We love to cook,” ...

McCray and Hall

by Layne Lynch • Photography by Melanie Grizzel It’s hard to believe that a serendipitous stop at the Hotel San José in a restored 1972 camper van ended up rewarding Austin with ...