Inside My Table #73 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverAngela Dewree has been illustrating since grammar school in the San Francisco Bay Area. Today she designs and illustrates fashion retail compaigns for clients such as Tootsie’s, the Children’s Collection and Hermes. Her whimsical style has appeared in coloring books, signage at retail malls, invitations and periodicals. She is the principal of Design & Inspiration, a Heights-based studio specializing in advertising, retail and corporate events. |
32 THE AMAZING MACKEREL PUDDING PLAN: CLASSIC DIET RECIPE CARDS FROM THE 1970S
A few years ago, Wendy McClure was helping her parents clean out their basement when she discovered a long-forgotten collection of 1974 Weight Watchers recipe cards. A popular blogger who had been winning fans with her sharp and funny commentary on weight and body image, McClure decided to post the Disco-era cards on her website. The cards, along with her remarks, quickly became an internet phenomenon, passed from friend to friend all around the world. McClure offers My Table readers a small sample from her recently published book.
34 THE ULTIMATE METRO LINE PROGRESSIVE DINNER
It’s now possible to experience several top-notch restaurants in the course of a single evening, all of them within easy walking distance of the MetroRail corridor from the Museum of Fine Arts to UH Downtown. We tell you where to get on and off. And on and off, and on and off.
By Barbara Friedel McKnight
42 WINE & SPIRITS: HOUSTON’S TOP 10 WINE LISTS 2006
Eighty-two Houston-area restaurants submitted their wine lists and menus for review in our 11th annual Top 10 Wine Lists Awards. Here are the winners, along with many other interesting contenders.
By Charles M. Bear Dalton
50 CORKS: DON’T BE AFRAID OF PINK (WINE, THAT IS)!
Wine pros Randall McCrea and Chuck Jenkins go glass to glass in this point/counterpoint column. This issue, they taste and rate roses.
64 JUST DESSERTS: THE LAST ROW
A young writer weighs in on the Houston Symphony. His verdict: This enchilada could definitely use more jalapenos.
By James Sulak
11 TABLE TALK
11 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
12 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, Edible Etymology, Man About Town & more
22 LETTER FROM ALASKA
Not for the Timid
26 MR. ANON
Smokin’
50 SALUD
A toast to Sam Ray
53 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits bartender Lisa June at The Flat
54 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Give Me a Cow Foot & A Cold Ginger Beer
56 LISTINGS
Far North Houston
58 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Ra Sushi
Chez Georges
