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December 2010

  • Features

    • Feature

      Key Moments in Mexican Food History

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      From 3500 BC, when indigenous peoples in Mexico and Central America began cultivating chiles, to 2010, when the Culinary Institute of America opened an expanded campus in San Antonio.

    • Feature

      La Maestra

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      A lesson with Diana Kennedy.

    • Feature

      The Yellow Cheese Hall of Fame

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      Mex-Mex has the purist vote wrapped up, but these Tex-Mex bastions win hands down when it comes to comfort food and customer loyalty.

    • Spirits

      ¡Una Cerveza, Por Favor!

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      A Mexican beer pairing guide.

    • Feature

      The Soul of a Man

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      For nearly sixty years, a succession of obsessed blues and gospel fans have trekked across Texas, trying to unearth the story of one of the greatest, and most mysterious, musicians of the twentieth century. But the more they find, the less they seem to know.

    • Feature

      Guys in the White Hats

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      If these seven chefs have their way, Mexican food in Texas will never be the same.

    • Feature

      Let’s Have Mex-Tex

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      Where’s the best place to get a perfect plate of enchiladas? A chile relleno to die for? A salsa you’ll never forget? Come along on our tour of the fifty greatest Mexican restaurants in Texas, from Hugo’s, in Houston, to Tacos Santa Cecilia, in El Paso. This is not your father’s Tex-Mex.

    • Feature

      Former’s Almanac

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      What Bush could learn from Nixon, Carter, and Clinton.

    • Feature

      Gentling Cheatgrass

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      What does it take to break a wild mustang? Patience, horse sense, experience, and if you’re Teryn Lee Muench, no more than one hundred days.

    • Politics

      Bush 2.0

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      Two years after leaving office under a cloud of controversy, with a historically low approval rating, George W. Bush is reentering the spotlight and, with the groundbreaking of his library, launching his post-presidency. The question is, What will he do now?

  • Columns

    • The Texanist

      Offering fine advice since 2007

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      Aisle-scooting etiquette, slaughtering a turkey, skunk remedies, and the proper way to approach a group of ladies at a dance hall.

    • Oscar Casares

      Imaginary Friends

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      Brownsville’s first federal judge was a legendary figure in my house. So legendary that I never believed my father when he said he knew the man.

    • Behind the Lines

      Let There Be Right

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      The Republicans whipped the Democrats in November. Now what are they going to do?

    • Letter From Amarillo

      Almost Famous

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      When Jacob Isom swiped a Quran from an angry evangelist, he figured a few of his friends would enjoy the prank. Two months and one million YouTube views later, his life may never be the same.

  • Reporter

  • Web

  • Miscellany

    • Contributors

      Contributors

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      Mark K. Updegrove, Sterry Butcher, and Patricia Sharpe.

    • Roar of the Crowd

      Roar of the Crowd

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      Innocence Found It’s been nearly ten years since I became aware of Anthony Graves [“Innocence Lost,” October 2010]. It seemed as obvious then as it does now that he is another victim of Texas justice. It is incomprehensible that he was ever considered a viable suspect, much less one who could be convicted and sent …

    • Editor's Letter

      Don’t Mess With Exes

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      “Take the grips up to the attic.” That was Harry Truman’s response to a reporter who asked him, as he arrived back home in Independence, Missouri, after leaving the White House, what he intended to do first (“grips,” for all you kids out there, used to be a common synonym for “suitcases”). Truman was a …