Inside My Table #86 | Contents
ExcerptOn the coverMike Robins is a regular contributor to My Table magazine. His commercial and editorial work has been widely published over the past 30 years. |
10 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Tasting the Town, Recommended Reading, a taste test of seven tonic waters, front-line report from the local frozen-yogurt wars, Of Ice & Men & more.
28 CENTERFOLD: SEPARATED AT BIRTH
They say we all have a twin somewhere in the world. Well, we found celebrity twins for eight folks in the Houston food and wine business.
Layout by Shelby Creative
Concept by Paula Murphy
30 BABY SOMMELIERS
Houston’s “somms” are shaking up wine lists, stretching palates and widening comfort zones. They also toil long hours, study for ever-higher certification and pull purse strings at some of the city’s best-known restaurants. Good thing they have the energy of youth.
By Leigh Bell
36 CORKS: DOES SIZE REALLY MATTER?
Wine pro Randall McCrea and guest taster Russell D. Kane go glass to glass in this point/counterpoint column. This issue, they taste and rate California Cabernet Sauvignons.
56 JUST DESSERTS: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE CHEF
What happens when one’s paramour is no longer content to play second fiddle in the kitchen but wants to run the show? Give him an inch and you’re out on your ear.
By Micki McClelland
10TABLE TALK
8 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
20 FOOD LOVER’S QUIZ-INE
Have You Hugged Your Food Today?
24 MR. ANON: GRILLE GOES BYE-BYE
38 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits bartender Lydia Mathis at the West Alabama Ice House
40 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Some Like It Hot
42 LISTINGS
Sandwich Chains
44 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Sage
Feast
Danton’s Gulf Coast Seafood Kitchen
45 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
