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Anamaria Gutierrez, the garden manager at Este, in Austin, supplies produce to chef Fermín Núñez’s local restaurants Este, Suerte, and Bar Toti, in addition to offering educational tours of the garden and hosting community events. Here Gutierrez tells me about several of her favorite ingredients that are emblematic of New Tejano—and how to use them.  Read Next: The 50 Best Tacos in Texas Calabacita(Mexican summer squash) This light-green, cute, and tenderly sweet squash is perfect on the grill or for pollo con calabaza, but it’s a knockout in Suerte’s pastel de calabaza y chocolate.Flaming Flare Fresno PepperFresnos are the perfect combination of spicy and sweet. These juicy peppers are crisp when thinly sliced, bright when pickled, and addictive when fermented in a hot sauce. Hoja Santa(Mexican…

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2024 best tacos honorable mentions photoCompiling a list of the best anything is stressful—but perhaps especially so with tacos. After all, there are thousands upon thousands of taquerias and Mexican restaurants in cities, towns, and unincorporated communities across the state, and I wanted to do right by them. For Texas Monthly’s list of the state’s fifty best tacos, I visited more than four hundred taquerias and ate around 1,200 tacos. Of course, I wanted to include as many amazing ones as possible. I initially pitched one hundred entries, but a print magazine does ultimately have space restrictions.As I quibbled with my editors, the number dwindled to 75, and then 50. It’s a nice, round number that also leaves space to explore the concept of New Tejano, a cooking movement I…

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tejano dishes collageOne hallmark of New Tejano cuisine is that it’s forward-looking and nostalgic at the same time. These offerings from Texas taquerias achieve that balance while also incorporating local ingredients, such as pecans and mesquite pods, and ancient techniques, such as nixtamalization. Read Next: The 50 Best Tacos in Texas Chocotaco Suerte, Austin This dessert taco plays on nostalgia. A yellow-corn tortilla is filled with roasted-peanut caramel and cinnamon semifreddo, and covered in chocolate.  Crispy Dog Yellow Bell Tacos, Austin The snack evokes childhood memories for many New Tejano chefs. But Yellow Bell levels it up with Hebrew National franks and nixtamalized corn tortillas.  Green Spaghetti Barbs B Q, Lockhart Noodles enveloped in a creamy green sauce made with poblano chilesand cilantro is a staple in…

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Texas Longhorns coach Steve Sarkisian leads the team onto the field on August 31, 2024 in Austin.ESPN’s College GameDay comes to Austin Saturday, and once Lee Corso, Pat McAfee, and guest prognosticator Scottie Scheffler finish their morning of sports infotainment, the evening contest between the top-ranked Texas Longhorns and number five Georgia will be called on ABC and ESPN+ by Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Holly Rowe, and Katie George. That’s the network’s usual big-game broadcast team, but it sure would have been fitting to have Joe Tessitore at the play-by-play mic.It was Tessitore who called the Texas–Notre Dame game for ABC on September 4, 2016, in which the unranked Longhorns, coming off a second losing season under Charlie Strong, knocked off the tenth-ranked Fighting Irish in a 50–47 double-overtime thriller.“Texas is back, folks!” Tessitore boomed after UT quarterback Tyrone Swoopes dived…

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sebastian driussi austin fc photoWhen Austin FC lost to the LA Galaxy two Saturdays ago, the club found itself near the end of a second consecutive losing season. With a dismal record of ten wins, nine draws, and fourteen losses, another defeat wasn’t surprising. For some, the only surprise was that what happened next hadn’t happened earlier.Just a few hours after flying back from Los Angeles, head coach Josh Wolff was summoned to an early-morning meeting with Austin FC’s sporting director, Rodolfo Borrell, and majority owner, Anthony Precourt. A few minutes later, the franchise started searching for a new head coach.This Saturday will mark the club’s first game without Wolff, who had been on the payroll since Austin’s Major League Soccer debut. It will also be the final game…

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Texanist Jalisco RestaurantsQ: Why do so many restaurants have Jalisco in the name? Jalisco Grill, Taqueria Jalisco, and La Tequila Jalisco are just a few examples. I know it is a state in Mexico, but why is it such a popular restaurant name? Merrill Rosas, San AntonioA: The Texanist is absolutely crazy about the widely varying and ever-succulent smorgasbord of cuisines derived from the culinary customs of our neighbors to the south, west, and southwest of our southern border. In fact, among all of the world’s gastronomical offerings, including but not limited to Cajun, Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and State Fair of Texas fare, it’s probably Mexican food (and, it goes without saying, Tex-Mex) for which he has, perhaps, the greatest affinity.Very recently, before the…

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ashton jeanty boise state heisman trophy photoIt’s difficult to catch Ashton Jeanty on a football field. That figures, since he has been all over the depth chart on teams he’s played for during the six years since his family returned to the United States after his father, an officer in the U.S. Navy, completed three years stationed in Italy.When they arrived back stateside, Jeanty showed up at Frisco’s Lone Star High School as a “who’s he?” sophomore eager to play football for the Rangers. Jeanty flashed exceptional offensive ability right away in Frisco, but coaches still placed the newcomer on defense because the team’s offensive backfield was stacked with high-end college commits. His junior year, Jeanty played primarily as a receiver, and he moved to running back as a senior. At…

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Dan Goodgame Ross McCammonTexas Monthly, the national magazine of the Lone Star State, announced Friday that editor in chief Dan Goodgame has decided to step down at the end of the year. Texas Monthly LLC Chairman Randa Duncan Williams has named as his successor Ross McCammon, a native Texan who became the magazine’s deputy editor last year.Williams said, “I’m proud of Dan and the gifted editorial team he has built and led. Together, they’ve improved the quality of our journalism, given Texans many new ways to enjoy it, and attracted a much larger audience, statewide and nationally. I’m excited to promote someone as experienced and talented as Ross to editor in chief, and I look forward to the new stories and initiatives he brings to Texas Monthly.”Born in…

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Willie Nelson at ACL: then and nowOn October 17, 1974, Willie Nelson walked into a TV studio on the University of Texas at Austin campus, strapped on his guitar, and created a new city. The musician, 41 and without a gray hair on his head, was there to tape the pilot episode of a show called Austin City Limits in front of an intimate crowd of young hippies and rednecks, the types of people who enjoyed his music the most. Nobody knew it then, but this fledgling show would become the longest-running music TV program of all time, and Willie and his fans would change country music—and Austin—forever.On Thursday Willie played Austin City Limits again, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of that first performance—and his status as an American hero. This time…

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Camino Real de los TejasOn the outskirts of a golf course in Floresville, thirty miles southeast of San Antonio, Steven Gonzales meanders off a dusty trail into the woods. He’s looking for evidence of wagon swales, or ruts, dating back to the time of Spanish settlers in the 1700s. It’s an obsession that has occasionally earned the nonprofit director and history enthusiast the nickname “rut nut.” To the untrained eye, swales aren’t that impressive. They’re just sloped mounds of earth that end in flattened makeshift roads, compacted by centuries of travel. But this particular road, whether it runs behind the nearest Walmart or the local outlet mall, is important because it’s the road that led to the founding of Texas. Most of us drive right by it.Many great trails…

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