Inside My Table #74 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverGabriel Suarez, a native of Mexico, had the opportunity to live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2003. While there, he bought a digital camera and soon began capturing everyday life through the lens. Upon his return to the United States, he attended Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turner Falls, Mass., and took up photography full-time. Suarez’s work has appeared locally in The Houston Chronicle and Houston Press. He now lives and works in West Hollywood, Calif. |
32 ELVIS HAS ENTERED THE KITCHEN
To commemorate the 29th anniversary of the loss of The King (August 16, 1977), a place was reserved at center Table to munch through the puzzling world of Elvis Presley’s eating habits. It’s the least we could do to honor the man that Leonard Bernstein called “the greatest cultural force in the twentieth-century.” After all, as Johnny Carson put it, “If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
By Micki McClelland
34 THE JOY OF JUNK FOOD: NUTRITION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
Admit it: You like it. It may not be in your pantry. It may not even be in your normal diet. But it’s in your life. It’s under your skin. And more often that you’d probably admit, it’s in your mouth. We’re talking about junk food, a little vice that turns out to be about much more than just fat, sugar and salt.
By Kathy Biehl
46 CORKS: MAKE MINE MALBEC
Wine pros Randall McCrea and Chuck Jenkins go glass to glass in this point/counterpoint column. This issue, they taste and rate Malbecs.
64 JUST DESSERTS: DINING WITH PETS
When it comes to our pets, animal lovers disagree about proper dining etiquette. Sure, we’re all part of the pack. But who’s the alpha dog here anyway?
By Janice Rossen
11 TABLE TALK
11 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
12 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, Recommended Reading, Edible Etymology, Man About Town & more
24 MR. ANON
Guilty Pleasures and Sticky Fingers
46 SALUD
A toast to Charles M. Bear Dalton
49 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits bartender Kathy Brophy at Prego
50 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Where’s the Cuy?
52 LISTINGS
An Anglo-Irish Pub Crawl
54 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Glass Wall
Indika
55 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
60 THE EATER’S DIGEST
Restaurant reports from our correspondents in Fort Worth and Galveston
