Laura Buchanan

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To Russia With Love

Texas author Sharon Hudgins talks about living—and cooking a Tex-Mex meal—in Russia. (August 2003)

Texas Tidbits

What store carries more than 2,500 labels of wine, around eighty types of breads and pastries, and more than six hundred varieties of cheese? Central Market, of course. (June 2003)

Texas History 101

The state's first enclosed penitentiary, a 225-cell facility in Huntsville, has weathered some hard times—and expanded to include seven prison units. (May 2003)

Texas Tidbits

You learned all about the Alamo in school. Or did you? (March 2003)