Home to briny coastal byways and far west reaches, Bob Wills and Beyoncé, barbecue masters and Viet-Cajun innovators, Texas is vast, complicated and downright fun. Prepare for the adventure of a lifetime.
TEXAS
FIELD GUIDE
$20.00
“The interesting thing about Texas is that the future never quite pulls away from the past. The forces that ought to have broken the state into fragments have somehow done the opposite and bound it into a common identity.”
STEPHEN HARRIGAN
LOCAL STORIES, TRAVEL INTEL AND
MODERN LORE, INCLUDING:
• Dance Halls of note
• Intel on the state’s best brisket,
chili and kolaches
• A Round Top Antiques Fair primer
• An expert selection on retro inns, bohemian
retreats and elegant lodgings
• JT Van Zandt on the Texas coast
• Scenic stopovers in the Hill Country
• An interview with contemporary artist
Deborah Roberts
• Big Bend by horseback
• Kimberly King Parsons tracks her family’s
(and the state’s) musical lineage
• A history of Texas Monthly’s Bum Steer Awards
BARBECUE LEGEND
“TOOTSIE” TOMANETZ
Tomanetz first got her start manning a pit in 1966, when Hershel Doyle tapped her to head up his operation in Giddings and then Lexington. Now the owner of Snow’s BBQ, where patrons drive hours to taste Tomanetz’s smoked meats at the Saturday-only joint, the 84-year-old pitmaster insists,
“I’m still learning.”
ILLUSTRATOR
KELLY COLCHIN
Artist and fourth-generation Texan, Colchin has a love for the Lone Star State that runs deep. The illustrator learned to paint at her grandmother’s kitchen table in Irving. Now a mother herself based in Austin, she works with clients like Whole Foods and Texas Highways magazine, where her practice ranges from watercolors to cut paper to pattern work.
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