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Larry Perdido

Head chef and co-owner, Saba Blue Water Cafe

By Lisa Gray
Sep 20, 2001

"My mom, bless her heart, was an awful cook," drawls Larry Perdido. His parents emigrated from the Philippines to Houston in the '50s, and his mom, a nurse, soon learned to mangle American dishes as thoroughly as she wrecked those of the Southeast Asian islands. Out of self-defense, seven-year-old Larry...
Roger Cooper

Oenophile, Bert Wheeler's Liquors, 6518 Westheimer

By Lisa Gray
Sep 20, 2001

Every now and then, without much hope, a wine drinker drifts into Bert Wheeler's. It's a liquor store, not a wine boutique, and you expect the guy behind the counter to make change, not steer you to a great little Pouilly-Fumé. And certainly Roger Cooper doesn't look or sound anything...
Keep Off the Grass

Felder Rushing lectures at the Harris County Agriculture Extension Center

By Lisa Gray
Feb 17, 2000

Asking Felder Rushing for a gardening opinion is like fertilizing kudzu: No matter how much exuberance you brace for, the result still surprises you. Grass? A waste of space, Rushing says. Azaleas? Pretty in the spring, but the rest of the year, they're nothing but big green meatballs. Fire ants...
Thanks for Nothing

The Chronicle's annual parade of prepackaged Thanksgiving recipes needs to be canned

By Lisa Gray
Nov 25, 1999

Every year, on a Monday in late November, the Houston Chronicle publishes its annual pre-Thanksgiving Food section and in doing so, unleashes some of the year's worst recipes on unsuspecting, holiday-addled readers. Last year the atrocities included a microwaved whole turkey; two different green-bean casseroles made with cans of cream...
Hot Plate

By Lisa Gray
Sep 9, 1999

Messing with Texas: I rely on the menu at Goode Company Seafood. It's a buffer in a chaotic world, an almost unchanging lineup of fried and mesquite-grilled fish, shrimp, oysters and crawfish, varying only with the seasons and the catch of the day. It's Texas stuff, with only a few...

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