Inside My Table #83 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverArtist Robert Cook is senior art director at Edge Creative Strategies in Houston. Years of experience as a conceptual thinker has allowed him to communicate with a variety of techniques, and illustration is one of his favorite ways of problem solving. His aesthetic influences include surrealism, comic books, pop art and folk art. As a communicator, he finds human nature to be the best source of inspiration. “I am constantly amazed by the perceptions of others and the meaning they derive from experience,” he says. |
12 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Letters to the Editor, Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, Recommended Reading, Of Ice and Men, Bragging Dinners & more
30 THE STEPS IT TAKES
We handed out pedometers to eight folks in the hospitality industry—waitress, chef, hostess, busser, bartender, sous-chef, caterer, valet parker—and asked each to keep track of how far he or she walked on a typical shift. Can you guess who walked the most? Who walked the least?
By Paula Murphy and Shelby Watson
32 ENTERTAINING BY PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Using Office Tools to Save Your Sanity At Home
Spreadsheets in the kitchen? Task lists in the dining room? Our reluctant writer considers the approach to entertaining taken by a business-analyst friend. Fortunately, you don’t need an MBA to adopt some of these techniques for your own use.
By Kathy Biehl
42 CORKS: BIG JUGS! BIG TASTE?
Wine pro Randall McCrea and guest taster Laura Widing go glass to glass in this point/counterpoint column. This issue, they taste and rate jug wines.
60 JUST DESSERTS: A VALENTINE NIGHT’S DINING FANTASY
On the annual holiday dedicated to love, it’s useful to recall Honore Balzac’s observation that men become passionately attached to women who “cosset them with delicate tidbits.” Our writer offers suggestions for said tidbits.
By Micki McClelland
11 TABLE TALK
11 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
22 FOOD LOVER’S QUIZ-INE
Much More than Potatoes: A Tribute to Irish Eyes
24 MR. ANON
Guy Walks Into a Bar
41 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits Shane Cook at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck
46 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
It’s All Greek to Me
48 LISTINGS
2007’s Best New Restaurants
50 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Bistro Calais
Bistro Toulouse
Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse
51 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
