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What It’s Like to Judge a Famous Chili Cookoff
T he judging of the International Frank X. Tolbert-Wick Fowler Memorial Championship Chili Cook-Off in Terlingua is underway. There are 10 of us seated at a long table, and to the casual observer it would seem we’re performing an ancient religious rite. We plunge spoons into the numbered, 24-ounce Styrofoam cups of brick-red chili in front of each one of us, and raise them to our lips.
New Book Chronicles the Life of San Antonio Artist Jesse Treviño
In over 30 years as a journalist, San Marcos writer and Texas Highways contributor Anthony Head has covered everything from high school basketball in Indiana to politics in Chicago to the culinary arts of Los Angeles, where he was an editor with Bon Appétit magazine.
Delia’s Tamales Define Christmas in the RGV
Delia Lubin, the namesake of this holiday season staple, started her tamale empire—which includes six restaurants, a food truck, and a mail-order business—with just 5 pounds of masa and the need to provide for her young family.
No Fast Food Here! 3 Mom-and-Pop Eateries on I-45
Driving the 240 miles of Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston reveals gentle changes in elevation, pastures in the north, pine forests farther south, and a relief from big-city traffic.
You Know You Want One: San Antonio’s Famous Puffy Tacos
Anyone who’s been to a Spurs game in San Antonio can attest that the city is filled with red-hot, habanero-grade pride. The iconic Alamo and its sister missions, a lively Riverwalk, and plenty of community-wide celebrations like Fiesta all give the historic Texas city its flavor—and no place captures the city’s character better than Ray’s Drive Inn, the West Side icehouse where the locally famous puffy taco was born.
Beach Rituals
My addiction to Texas beaches began literally overnight. I was in my early 20s and in graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin.
Happy Trails
The scene is wistfully familiar. As I pull off US 83 and into the stables at Elm Creek Ranch near Concan, there are a dozen or so horses saddled and tethered to the open-air barn where round bales of hay are stacked to the ceiling.
Sweet 16 (on Texas 16)
Many folks currently residing in Texas arrived only in the past few decades. And while those of us who go much farther back make every effort to educate these newcomers on important aspects of being a Texan, some things must be learned through experience.
Shop That Miranda Built
“Welcome to Lindale,” announces the vinyl billboard with a picture of a platinum blonde holding a guitar.
Hello Beach!
After years of visiting Texas beaches whenever I could, this spring I made the leap and moved my family to Galveston.
Lure of Llano
Shades of an urban beat have finally arrived in Llano, a Hill Country community along the Llano River and the default capital of the Llano Uplift, the ancient dome of characteristic pink granite poking out of the Edwards Plateau.
Grand by Design
A spotlight pierces the darkened theater as an acoustic guitarist fingerpicks the opening notes of a tune.
Creative Country
Sitting in the light-washed front room of his Salado gallery, artist Ronnie Wells shapes a small clay sculpture of two men carving a duck decoy, a model for a future bronze.
Pine Curtain of the Past
Looking up into the thick pine canopy of deep East Texas, it’s hard to believe that the pristine forests the pioneers encountered here are long gone.
A Tale of Two Cafés
A weekday lunch crowd fills the room with lively conversation. Behind a dining counter, hamburger patties sizzle on the grill and two gleaming machines spin wine-based frozen margaritas.
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