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BEST JERKY   Taylor Meat Company, Taylor As one of the oldest-known forms of preserved foodstuffs, jerky may be the original road food. It’s even traveled on the space shuttle—now THERE’S a road trip. Smoking, salting or marinating meat, then drying it, makes it much longer lasting, compact and lighter (refrigeration is required with some…

Containers filled with exotic looking plants can add zing to your garden

Sometimes, it’s the accidents of history that have the most far-reaching influence. When the fabled French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, landed 200 colonists at Matagorda Bay in early 1685, he was actually seeking the Mississippi River. Three years earlier, La Salle had become the first European to descend the big river to…

Baking with ease