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Executive editor Patricia Sharpe grew up in Austin and holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Texas at Austin. After working as a teacher (in English and Spanish) and at the Texas Historical Commission (writing historical markers), she joined the staff of Texas Monthly in 1974. Initially, she edited the magazine’s cultural and restaurant listings and wrote a consumer feature called Touts. She eventually focused exclusively on food. Her humorous story “War Fare,” an account of living for 48 hours on military MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), was included in the anthology Best Food Writing 2002. Many of her stories appear in the 2008 UT Press collection Texas Monthly on Food. Her story about being a restaurant critic, titled “Confessions of a ‘Skinny Bitch,’ ” won a James Beard Foundation award for magazine food writing in 2006.
Sharpe has contributed to Gourmet, Bon Appétit, Saveur, and the New York Times. She writes a regular restaurant column, Pat’s Pick, for Texas Monthly.
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Hunting gear that even Natty Bumppo would approve of.
It’s all here in black and white.
Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.
Amazing technicolor dreamworld.
Stick around and we’ll show you some of Texas’ best jam and jelly makers.
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Breaking up is hard to do.
Have these glamorous goblets come to the aid of your New Year's Eve Party.
The halls are alive with the sound of music.
Bench warmers and good lookers.
This one’s a real sleeper.
Have map, will travel; will dance, please ask me.
Go with the flow; made in the shade.
Hit the deck, shoot the breeze.
Of loaves and fishes.
Miniature madness.
What’s red and black and read all over?
Sing along, turn around, dip in.
Animal magnetism.
Between a rock and an art place.
Have yourself a merry Texas Christmas.
Hog calls and bouncing balls.
All about the bird and the beasts.
Shake and bake.
High flying and fly tying.
How you bean, kid?
About-face, inner space, and keeping pace.
On the ball and off the wall.
Bed and breakfast.
Burn, baby, burn
All I want is loving you and music, music, music.
Stamp collecting a metal perfecting.
There’s no Christmas like a south-of-the-border Christmas, with gift ideas to match.
By Patricia Sharpe and Cyndy Severson
Dress to kill.
Eat, eat, it’s good for you.
Stringing in the rain.
They’re delightful, they’re delovely, they’re delicious.
Comin’ in on a wing and a mare.
Cowgirls and dougboys.
Docs, rocks, and flocks.
Fortunes, falcons, and folderol.
Night stalkers and day walkers.
Heart warmers, house warmers, and nose warmers.
The beat of a different strummer.
High-flyin’ and highfalutin.