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Help Me, H-E-B Tortillas, You’re My Only Hope
It was a shortage of H-E-B Bakery tortillas during the COVID-19 pandemic that finally broke me. One day, my husband returned from picking up our curbside order looking troubled. “They gave us the wr...

Texas Monthly Is Crowning a Winner in the Ultimate Taste of Texas Bracket. Cast Your Vote!
Voting in this round has now closed. Check out round two here! There are many ways to get to know a culture: by examining the figures it celebrates, by analyzing the myths and legends it exalts, and b...

Big Fish Energy: The West Texan Who Caught the Same Trophy Bass Twice
Texas is big. So are our fish. In this occasional series, we talk to Texas anglers about their monster catches. Name: Ross GomezAge: 50Hometown: PostYears fishing: 36Favorite fishing holes: Lake Alan ...

Order It Rare and Bring Your Own Knife: How to Eat a 72-Ounce Steak in an Hour
In Harmony D’Andrea’s eight years as a server at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, in Amarillo, she’s watched hundreds of competitors take their shots at the 72-ounce steak challenge: eating a shrimp c...

Chef Hugo Ortega Is a Houston Legend. Wood-Roasted Oysters Are His Signature Dish.
How iconic are Hugo Ortega’s wood-roasted oysters? Iconic enough for Texas Monthly to put the dish on the cover of our December 2016 issue, which features a photograph of the Houston chef on the bea...

The Best Dessert in Texas Comes on a Cafeteria Tray
Luby’s, the local cafeteria chain founded in San Antonio in 1947, is a bona fide icon of commercial Texas gastronomy. Ask any Texan of a certain age and they’ll confirm it. The restaurants are muc...

Willie’s Luck Reunion Remains the “Anti-Festival” Antidote to SXSW
You just never know who you’re going to see at Luck Reunion. The tenth rendition of Willie Nelson’s annual music festival, held on his storied ranch in Spicewood, teased a surprise guest in its li...

Spain Is the Latest Country to Have Caught the Texas Barbecue Bug
Pitmaster Carlos Sanz Velasco dons a black trucker hat decorated with the outline of a steer. Indifferent to the rain, he calmly sips coffee from a thermos as he overlooks the picnic tables on his amp...

This Texan Wants to Leave His Trans Identity in the Past. The GOP Won’t Let Him.
Last summer, when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton prompted the Texas Department of Safety to stop honoring court orders as bases to change the sex on a person’s driver’s license, a Houston man f...

You Are Not Alone if SXSW Convinced You Aliens Are Real
During a good year for SXSW, attendees can detect a theme to the event after a few days. Maybe it’s 2007, and people suddenly can’t wait to post on something called Twitter, or maybe it’s 2015, ...