Don Strange fed the famous and the modest alike. Whether catering to congressmen at barbecue events on the White House lawn, swells in Hollywood, Katrina refugees at Kelley Air Force Base or 35,000 Lutheran youth at La Villita, he never forgot the true meaning of hospitality. San Antonio’s reputation as a city of open...
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Don Strange Remembered in Recipes
Foodways Texas: preserving Texas’ unique food traditions
Texans, even those who pay some attention to what they put in their mouths, tend to take our iconic foods for granted. The tamales, the barbacoa, the pan dulce, the sausage, the locally harvested honey…we assume it will all be there when we want it. Yet indifference inevitably takes its toll, as do both...
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