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You’re invited to another round of Texas Dinner Party: Holiday Potluck Edition. Your hosts are Texas Monthly staffers who have searched the TM catalog for recipes that are sure to shine at your next holiday gathering—no matter your skill level. Texas Country Reporter producer Scott Ray shows how this simple cheese dip is potluck flex, whether you’re a beginner or a more ambitious home cook like him. Want to try for yourself at home? Head to the full recipe.

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You’re invited to another round of Texas Dinner Party: Holiday Potluck Edition. Your hosts are Texas Monthly staffers who have searched the TM catalog for holiday recipes that are sure to shine at your next holiday gathering—no matter your skill level. Newsletter editor Taylor Prewitt is a self-described kitchen neophyte, but there’s no cooking required for this elevated classic cocktail steeped in fall flavor. Want to try it yourself at home? Head to the full recipe.

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As we bounce along an overgrown truck path in the dense brush country of South Texas’s historic San Vicente Ranch, the Longhorns we seek elude us beneath the midday sun. José “Che” Guerra, a rancher and collector of art and artifacts from colonial New Spain, is trying to show me cattle descended from a herd of wild Longhorns that his father began building in the fifties. But the animals are wary today. A couple of stragglers hear our approach and swiftly make their way deeper into the gray thickets of cenizo on the Guerra family’s ranch. “The Longhorns in Mexico were called criollos because they were born in the wild in the New World,” Che explains as we tour the ranch about thirty miles north of…

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texanist national parks illustrationQ:  A friend and I like to visit national parks around the country. He says the best one in Texas is Guadalupe Mountains National Park. I think it’s Big Bend National Park. Can you settle this argument?Ryan Lahurd, ChicagoA: The Texanist, himself a man who enjoys ambling about in the great outdoors, has never paused to ponder which of these two wondrous West Texas sanctuaries is superior. He has always considered them awesome in their own particular ways—just as, say, brisket and ribs or Lone Star and Pearl or Willie Nelson and ZZ Top are. That said, the Texanist’s bread doesn’t get buttered by not responding to the letters that come across his desk. So let’s have a more disquisitive look.Though both parks feature spectacular…

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To fully appreciate the art and ingenuity of Bob Lee Bows, you’ll need to go back, oh, about 70,000 years, to the Paleolithic era, when humans began using some form of the bow and arrow. Until the modern-day reliance on firearms, archery was one of the main methods of hunting—and warfare—for millennia. Not much changed in terms of design until the twentieth century. In 1963 a Texan named Bob Lee invented the first three-piece detachable-limb bow, a precursor to the modern takedown bow, which can be easily disassembled for transport. Bowhunting hasn’t been the same since.When Lee created this landmark bow, known as the Presentation II, he owned a company called Wing Archery, in Jacksonville, a small town about thirty miles south of Tyler, in…

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annie willie nelson weed cookbook photo illustrationFor a 91-year-old, Willie Nelson is a pretty busy guy. On top of his still very active recording and touring career, the singer/songwriter from Abbott finds time to advocate for policies that decriminalize marijuana. Most recently, he endorsed a Dallas proposition that prohibits arrests for carrying four ounces or less of the substance. (It passed.) He also owns a cannabis brand called Willie’s Reserve. It should come as no surprise, then, that when Willie and his wife, Annie, set out to write a cookbook, there was only one topic to cover.Out now, Willie & Annie Nelson’s Cannabis Cookbook (Simon & Schuster) is a combination food-travel memoir and primer on cooking with cannabis, and I learned a whole lot while reading it, from the couple’s favorite…

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loveland ski area view photoBy the time March rolls around, most Texans are peeling off clothing and girding themselves for six long months of sweat, searing sun, and heat so intense you need potholders to touch the steering wheel of your car. In Colorado, it’s a different story. Late March and early April—or, as I like to call it, secret ski season—brings some of the heaviest snows to parts of the Centennial State (and beyond). The cost of lift tickets drops, crowds thin, and days get longer, too.But it doesn’t happen everywhere. Though conditions vary year to year (and are progressively worsening as climate change heats up the planet), Colorado’s more southern resorts tend to get hit with their biggest storms earlier in the season. In New Mexico, warmer…

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billy bob thornton in landman episode 1 stillFind our ongoing coverage of the first season of Landman here. Texan occupations have been mined for television gold since at least 1949, when the Lone Ranger first buddied up with Tonto. For better or worse, The Lone Ranger created a blueprint for TV shows that want to explore the great Texas mythos of people making change against all odds. From Coach Taylor’s clear eyes in Friday Night Lights to Coach Monica Aldama’s tough love on Cheer, the formula remains the same: Take a complicated and charismatic protagonist, pit them against momentous adversity, set it all to a great soundtrack and sweeping views of the Texas setting of your choice, add in a dash of camp, and pardner, you just might have yourself a hit…

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jacob lofland landman episode 2 stillFind our ongoing coverage of the first season of Landman here. After the literally explosive ending to the pilot, I am quaking in my Crocs and ready for some questions to be answered. Luckily, “Dreamers and Losers” is a deep dive into the dramatic lives of these oil bros and what makes them frack tick. There’s still a sprinkle of camp here, but this installment is more focused on world and character building, which is helpful after we spent the previous hour meeting so many denizens of West Texas. (The show is based on the Texas Monthly and Imperative Entertainment podcast Boomtown, and TM is an executive producer.) There’s a lot to unpack, so we’re tackling episode two’s most urgent questions one by one. What’s…

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Turkey and mashed potatoes, cookies and eggnog, latkes and challah—the holidays often center around food, and in the rush of list making and grocery shopping, it’s easy to forget about the final destination: the table.Tablescaping, by definition, is “the activity of arranging items on a table in an attractive and decorative way, often with matching plates, bowls, etc. and items such as napkins, flowers, and candles.” But, as any professional tablescaper will tell you, it’s not just about making things look good. It’s about creating an inviting place where guests feel welcome and comfortable. We asked experts around the state for their best tips, along with recommendations for shops near and far that can help you pull everything together. Here’s what they had to say.Plan ahead.Houston’s…

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