Mrs. A.C. Schwethelm’s Cheese and Pineapple Salad appeared in “Cooking in Comfort, Vol. 1,” a cookbook compiled by members of the Comfort Historical Society in 1982. Mrs. Schwethelm was the former Marilyn Fortner, of Tyler, a 1950 graduate of Texas Woman’s University. That September, she accepted he...

The name J.J. “Jake” Pickle still rings a bell across much of Texas. He served as a U.S. Congressman for more than three decades, but his beginnings were modest. Pickle grew up in Roscoe, near Sweetwater. An Eagle Scout, he graduated from Big Spring High School and earned his B.A. from the Universit...

Doug Hubbard, who compiled “Favorite Recipes of Famous Texans” in 1988, was not an outsider to Fredericksburg. By the mid-1970s, he was serving as Executive Director of the Admiral Nimitz Center here and later was associated for years with leadership at the Nimitz Museum, now the National Museum of ...

When German’s Chocolate Cake first appeared, everyone felt pleased — even proud. We all thought it was something special, something that connected us ...

Tex-Mex was still Texas’ bestkept secret at the beginning of the 1960s. It remained largely unknown outside San Antonio and South Texas, and even thos...

We had three wood-burning stoves to heat our home in the ’50s. My mom built a fire in the kitchen stove before milking three cows and making breakfast...