february-2013

Great Plains Gallivanting

January 31, 2013 | By Melissa Gaskill

The sky in Lubbock sprawls from horizon to horizon, soaring overhead like the sandhill cranes that pass through twice a year.

Telling the South Texas Story

January 31, 2013 | By Gene Fowler

The freight courier and ox-drawn cart in the entryway of the new Robert J. and Helen C.

What’s Cooking?

January 31, 2013 | By Lori Moffatt

Since I began taking cooking classes a few years ago, I’ve learned how to finely dice an onion with a few strategic knife cuts, how to use a pillowcase as a makeshift salad spinner, and how Elizabethan chefs relied on fleet­footed canines called turnspit dogs to power their rotating barbecue spits.

Love and Lammes

January 31, 2013 | By Mary O. Parker

Austin’s 125-year-old Lammes Candies cranks out about a quarter-million pounds of mouth-watering chocolates each year using ingredients such as peanuts, cashews, roasted almonds, car­amel, orange peels, peppermints, and habanero peppers.

What’s New at the Pearl

January 31, 2013 | By Lori Moffatt

When we first reported on the redevelopment of San Antonio’s former Pearl Brewery site in 2010, the 22-acre complex-at the northernmost navigable point of the San Antonio River-was beginning to fill in with shops, restaurants, and activi­ties ranging from a weekly farmer’s market to cooking classes at the new Texas campus of the Culinary Institute of America.

Life Returns to the Chisos High Country

January 31, 2013 | By Laurence Parent

Wow, That’s Neat!

January 31, 2013 | By Matt Joyce

It’s no secret that Dallas prefers big, bold, and flashy diversions. The new Perot Museum of Nature and Science answers the call, while also mixing in a healthy dose of education and innovation.

Raising the Bar on Chocolate

January 31, 2013 | By Kristy Alpert

Chocolate has become synonymous with the month of February. Like the Aztec Emperor Mont­ezuma, who is said to have drunk more than 50 cups of liquid chocolate daily for its aphrodisiacal properties, those looking to express sweet sentiments or celebrate love have long extolled chocolate in its many forms.

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