Includes both our Texas Barbecue and Texas Rivers photo almanacs, tributes to the state's enduring traditions. Each photo almanac includes contemporary and archival photographs, interviews, and stories about the pastimes

 

PHOTO ALMANAC SET

TEXAS


$60.00

 

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INCLUDED IN TEXAS BARBECUE:

  • Pitmaster interviews with generational flame keepers, soot-covered stewards and tenacious newcomers (including Tootsie!)

  • Portraits of the people, past and present, embossed in Texas barbecue’s story

  • The Joints, from tin-roofed sheds to brick-built institutions to BBQ trailers rethinking the craft

  • Tabletop views of barbecue masterworks, i.e. heaping trays of meat

  • Essays, anecdotes and archival stories from award-winning chefs, food journalists, historians, metalsmiths and more

INCLUDED IN TEXAS RIVERS:

  • Artist Margie Crisp shares how rivers inspire her creatively

  • Champion canoer Bob Spain tells of close calls on the Texas Water Safari

  • Filmmaker Ben Masters expresses his reverence for the wild and complicated border that is the Rio Grande.

  • 60 highly curated photos, essays and interviews, including notable voices such as Andrew Sansom and Naomi Shihab Nye

  • Short original essays by Dan Oko and Abby Johnston

  • Stories and archival pieces that highlight the peaceful magic of tubing, ranching as conservation, summer camp memories and

 
 
 
 
 

Wildsam Texas Photo Almanacs were made possible because of the state’s wealth of photographers and historians who contributed these images of Texas waterways and barbecue culture.

BARBECUE PHOTOGRAPHERS

Special thanks to Kenny Braun, Darren Carroll, Robert Gomez, Jody Horton, O. Rufus Lovett, Wyatt McSpadden, LeAnn Mueller, Bill Sallans, Jeff Wilson and Ben Yanto, for capturing it all, from ashen pits to Technicolor trays, weathered woodstacks to glowing neon.

RIVERS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Thanks especially to Kenny Braun, Wynn Myers, Erich Schlegel, Nick Simonite, Gideon Tsang and more for capturing everything from turquoise swimming holes to rushing rivers, floats to paddles. And thank you to the Wittliff Collections, the Austin History Center, the Meadows Center, the University of Texas at Arlington and Camp Longhorn for the archival photographs.

 
 
 
 
 

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