December 2007
Table of Contents
Features
Meat Your MakerFrom city to country, fancy to down-home, the state’s 38 best steakhouses. Plus: the Japanese beef that everyone should be eating, our favorite butcher shops, and how to grill a ribeye that even your father-in-law will love. Plus:Lamberts Cookoff VideoBeefing UpWhere to buy Akaushi, the best beef in Texas. Recipe for a Perfect CookoffWedge Salad With Blue Cheese DressingPerini Ranch Steakhouse, Buffalo Gap Creamed Corn With Crispy Bread Crumb ToppingStrip House, Houston Being There: Meat MarketA slide show of Texas steakhouses captures the state’s love affair with beef. Big RedJohn Cornyn won a U.S. Senate seat in 2002 by pledging allegiance to George W. Bush and riding a Republican wave to victory. But neither the president nor the wave is as strong six years later, and Cornyn’s bid for reelection may not be either. The Last ResortAfter telecommunications tycoon Steve Smith bought the Big Bend town of Lajitas on a whim for $4.25 million, he spent perhaps $100 million more developing what was going to be a five-star, world-class getaway. The desert, however, had other ideas. |
That Championship SeasonLong before the BCS, long before anyone thought to publish insider newsletters for boosters, the Aggies were the best college football team in the nation—for the first and only time. The long-gone glory days remembered. Everyone’s PoopSewerage is the cornerstone of civilization, the sine qua non of urban life, and the best possible window into how we live, what we eat, and who we are. The Best Public SchoolsA ranking of 859 elementary, middle, and high schools that really make the grade. |
Columns
Letter From HoustonReversal of FortuneHow Houston’s rich got to be the same as you and me—that is, boring. Letter from San AntonioBoom With A ViewThere’s no stopping the skyrocketing growth of San Antonio—until recently the Land That Time Forgot—and there’s no going back. |
Reporter
Texas Monthly TalksKay Bailey Hutchison |
The Filter
The Filter: DiningNew and Noteworthy |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdAlpine Mystery Slights |
Editor’s LetterMeat the Press |
Web Exclusives
Aaron AllstonThe Round Rock author and former video game designer has just penned his ninth Star Wars serialization, Legacy of the Force: Fury. Barry WalkerThe curator of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston discusses the museum’s recent acquisitions, from Jasper Johns to Philip Guston. |
Dickens on The StrandGalveston |
