David Alan
Mix Master
Bustling around his front yard, David Alan picks a Meyer lemon from a tree and some Mexican mint marigold from his garden. Inside his...
The Austin Round Table
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a consortium of writers and wits gathered at New York’s Algonquin Hotel, ostensibly for lunch, but...
Gender in a Glass
Imagine this: two cowboys–tall and lean, in pressed denim and fresh shirts–enter a saloon. Boots polished, hats crisp, the boys sidle up to the...
Get the Skinny on Healthy Cocktails
Anyone who scans the health or lifestyle sections of the daily paper knows that the authorities are rarely in agreement on the purported health...
A ‘Craft’ Course in Texas Beer
There has been a culture of brewing beer in Texas since waves of German and Czech immigrants landed on the third coast in the...
The Chateau
Austinite Robert Garrett resided in one of the city’s most remarkable homes for five decades. During that time, the house and its grounds were...
Winter Warmers
Hot drinks don’t get a whole
lot of play in Texas. But every year
there are at least a few decidedly wintery
weeks when nothing...
The Standards
At our house, the holidays start sometime in mid-November and stretch into the early part of January. Roughly bookended by Thanksgiving and the turn...
