Inside My Table #67 | Contents
ExcerptQuestions for singer Steve Tyrell On the coverJerrie Powell spent several years building Mrs. Powell’s Gourmet Pecans into a promising business, but she has been interested in drawing and painting all her life. She will have a one-woman show at Austin College in Sherman July 23 through September and is scheduled for her first show in Europe at the American Women’s Club of Brussels in March 2006. To see more of her work, visit www.jerriepowell.com. |
28 FRESH
This issue’s guide to the earthy and the sublime looks at the way Houston feeds its children. Sadly, the default meal appears to be a dish of emulsified trans-fat and preservatives with a side of TV and a big sugary drink. On a brighter note, we offer a guide to local pick-your-own farms.
Edited by Toby Gilbert
32 LETTER FROM STONINGTON, MAINE
Last year’s driving vacation took our contributor and his wife to a New England seaside town that attracts tourists, artists and lobster-lovers during the summer months.
By Randall McCrea
34 COVER STORY: SUGAR: FROM COMMON CANE TO COMELY CUBE
Despite the histrionics of the food police and diet nannies, there is nothing unnatural about sugar. It helped early man survive the rigors of primitive life. Indeed, sugar and its cultivation greatly impacted the history of our species. Before sugar came to be ranked with salt and bread as the dieters’ axis of evil, what was so alluring about the stuff?
By Eulah Matthews & William Neidinger
Illustration by Jerrie Powell
64 JUST DESSERTS: PRESERVED
A poem about figs.
By M. Yvonne Taylor
9 TABLE TALK
9 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
10 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, On The Road, Edible Etymology, Recommended Reading, Man About Town & more
22 MR. ANON
You Art What You Eat
42 WINE & SPIRITS
Houston’s Top 10 Wine Lists 2005
44 ¡SALUD!
A toast to Sean Beck
48 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
The Elusive Cuban Sandwich
50 LISTINGS
Buns of Gold
52 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Bistro Moderne
Grand Lux Cafe
Thai Sticks
53 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
62 THE EATER’S DIGEST
Restaurant reports from our correspondents in San Antonio and Grapevine.
