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Lesa
Unconventional Wisdom: Lesa Tran Lu

Bridging a profession in teaching and a love of cooking has turned out to be the perfect recipe for Lesa Tran Lu ’07.

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Mandola
Eating Italian, Family Style

Frankie B. Mandola’s Houston food legacy includes poboys, calamari and meatballs.

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Chef Kyle
Rice's Food (R)evolution

Over the past 20 years, food service at Rice has gone from a central kitchen model to one where food is planned, prepared and served at the residential colleges by culinary professionals. Today, they’re dishing up some of the best campus food in the country. Here’s the story behind Rice’s food (r)evolution.

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Illustration by Paddy Mills
Glorious Food

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Alison Cook
Undercover Eater

How food critic Alison Cook ’69 gets an inside look at Houston’s restaurant scene — even when everyone’s looking at her.

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Illustration by Jennifer May Reiland
Georgia's Legacy

A visionary leader, scientist and entrepreneur, Georgia Bost ’72 left an outsized legacy that continues to nurture Houstonian’s hunger for healthful eating.

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Pie
The Meaning of Pie

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to make the perfect pie, but it doesn’t hurt to be one.

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Christina
On the Bandvegan

Kristina Carrillo-Bucaram’s entrepreneurial spirit nurtures an appetite for raw and vegan foods

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Claire Smith
Finding Her Place in Houston's Culinary World

In high school, Claire Smith ’87 begged her parents, both Rice grads, to let her skip college and attend culinary school. Her parents were unmoved, so off she went to Rice. Culinary school would have to wait.

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Awesome Bites
Tested and Tasted

Awesome Bites puts allergy-friendly ingredients front and center

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Eduardo
Staging 101

So you want to be a chef.

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Cheese
The Cheesemonger of Texas

From a farmers market stand to a thriving wholesale business supplying cheeses to restaurants — and a European-style cheese shop — Houston Dairymaids has changed the way Texans taste cheese.

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Micheal Cordua
Heat and Hospitality

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Honey Art Cafe
A Café Made for Art, Food ... and Instagram

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Burger
Meat Cute

An underground diner houses Rice grads’ elevated take on burgers

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Greg Gatlin
Greg Gatlin's Full Plate

The secret to Gatlin’s award-winning barbecue is written on the wall.

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Nishta
College Food

As an Indian-American student who grew up in Tennessee, I thought my palate was pretty wide-ranging — until I moved to Houston to attend Rice.

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Illustration by Paddy Mills
Welcome to Our Table

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Summer 2017

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