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Three Cousins’ Strawberry Patch

When Will and Ann Bates’ oldest granddaughter, Hallie Bates, was 9 years old and ready to enter the 4-H program in Poteet, Texas, she told her grandparents she wanted to raise animals—pigs, ...

Front-of-the-House Heroes

A great server can transform a remarkable meal into the dining experience of a lifetime—making you feel welcome and special with well-timed and light-handed expertise. Exhibiting equal parts grace, ...

Renda Graham

On a gray, windy afternoon 10 days before Christmas and a week after the most spectacular snow in the memory of most Central Texans, I’m heading across the flat ranchland east of the Balcones Fault ...

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 ...

Bee Tree Farm & Dairy

A golf cart ambles down the hill toward a big, red, open-sided barn, where three effusively friendly Great Pyrenees dogs are keeping watch over a herd of goats (and any visitors that come their way). ...

Mastering Vegan Baking

"WHAT?” I had just told my friend that I was vegan and she freaked out! That was when I knew that being vegan wasn’t going to be easy. “WHAT? NO MEAT? NO DESSERT? NO MILK? NO ANYTHING? WHAT THE ...

Acornseekers

For years, Sergio Marsal had dreamed of sharing the Spanish cured-ham delicacy, jamón Ibérico de bellota, with the rest of the world—especially with the U.S. It was a dream borne of urgency after ...

Boys in the 'Hood

To the brothers Hunt—the siblings behind Via 313, Austin’s mini-chain of extremely popular Detroit-style pizza joints—pizza equals community. “It’s inclusive, that’s what it’s about,” ...

Guy Forsyth

If you’re ever in South Austin and forget the street address of your musician friend, pick the house with the beat-up van in the driveway. There’s a fairly solid chance that the person who ...

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 ...