Inside My Table #94 | Contents
ExcerptA Pair of Cocktail Recipes from Guava Lamp Dining Without Borders—Happiness Is a Warm Pierog Editor’s Letter—Painting the Store On the coverTom Newton has been a Houston graphic designer for three decades. His work, which often uses wit and craft to tickle the brain and delight the eye as a means to touch the emotions, has been honored by Communications Arts magazine, The New York Art Directors Club, Print magazine, Typography International Association and Logo Lounge, among many others. Tom is a senior designer with CMA design. |
9 HOUSTON BITES BACK
Includes Noteworthy Openings & Closings, Mailbag, Recommended Reading, In The Bag, Houston chefs’ soup recipes, winners of the 2009 Houston Culinary Awards & more
30 CENTERFOLD: ON THE ROAD WITH MY TABLE
We love receiving your photos! From time to time we accumulate such a backlog of snapshots of our readers and My Table magazine taken all around the world that we break from our one-per-issue habit and publish a dozen or so to clear out the file. This is one of those times.
38 TASTEMAKERS: JIM GOSSEN ON THE HALF SHELL
When Saveur magazine needed the perfect fish for a photo shoot, whom did they call? Houston seafood king Jim Gossen. In this new feature, we begin a series of profiles of the men and women who make the Houston food scene such a remarkable boiling pot of delicious possibilities. You may not recognize all of their names, but you should: They are the city’s tastemakers.
By Janice Schindeler
46 WINE & SPIRITS: A NEW BREWERY FOR SAINT ARNOLD
After 15 years in its original location near Northwest Mall, Saint Arnold has moved to new and much larger quarters just north of downtown. We drop in for a tour and chat with founder Brock Wagner.
By Mike Riccetti
DEPARTMENTS
8 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
8 TABLE TALK
What’s going on in the Houston restaurant world?
26 MAN ABOUT THE KITCHEN
Here Comes Hanna Claus
32 FOOD LOVER’S QUIZINE
Holiday Greetings
34 JUST DESSERTS
Dulce De Leche: Texan Translations
36 AU NATURELE
Psst! Wanna Buy Some Raw Milk?
45 THE GNOME RANGER
Our bar gnome visits bartender Brooks Drew at Guava Lamp.
46 DINING WITHOUT BORDERS
Happiness Is a Warm Pieróg
48 LISTINGS
Eight places to eat paella
50 RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Ciao Bello
Jonathan’s the Rub
Giacomo’s Cibo e Vino
51 ADVERTISER DIRECTORY
60 TASTING THE TOWN
Hummus Among Us
