Inside My Table #72 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverEver felt knee-high to a Brussel sprout? Or tried to mince garlic the size of boulders? Photographer Audrey Heller shows us everyday foods from a Lilliputian’s point of view. See more images in our April-May issue (No. 72). Or visit her online gallery at audreyheller.com. |
32 CENTERFOLD: DISPROPORTIONATE FUN
Try looking at food from a new point of view—one that melds the influences of Dr. Seuss and Edward Weston.
Photos and text by Audrey Heller
36 WHO’S WHO IN HOUSTON RESTAURANTS
If you are a true Houston foodie, you probably know many—even most—of the 45 folks who made our updated who’s-who list. Or there just might be several you should get to know. Here’s a primer to the brightest, best and most influential people in Houston dining today.
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins
64 JUST DESSERTS: DO YOU REALLY WANT TO EAT ART?
The fussier and more embellished your plate of food, the more likely someone’s dirty hands spent too much time arranging it. Squeamish yet? Read on. Our correspondent, a former restaurant cook, writes from experience.
By Brian McManus
NEW FEATURE THIS ISSUE!
20 THE INTREPID FOODIE
Central Market president John Campbell travels the world to find new products for the seven Texas stores. Now he takes My Table readers along in a comic strip drawn exclusively for our magazine. First stop: Japan.
NEW COLUMN THIS ISSUE!
46 CORKS
Wine pros Randall McCrea and Chuck Jenkins go glass to glass in this point/counterpoint column. For their debut, they taste and rate Australian Chardonnays.
11 TABLE TALK
11 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
12 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, On The Road, Edible Etymology, Man About Town & more
28 MR. ANON
The Dottie Diaries
49 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits bartender David Leone at Belvedere
50 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Not Lesbian, Lebanese!
52 LISTINGS
Where’s the Beef?
(Our guide to steakhouses)
54 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Dolce Vita Pizzeria & Enoteca
Bice
55 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
60 THE EATER’S DIGEST
Restaurant reports from our correspondents in Southlake and Galveston
