Easy Living, Texas Gulf Style
Commercial fisherman Bill “Bubba” Cochrane, and fiancée, Clarissa Brown, roast an American red snapper with cabbage and okra in the contemporary kitchen of his island home. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Ask commercial fisherman Bill “Bubba” Cochrane what he likes to prepare for dinner, and his answer is immediate. [Read more…]
Leslie Karam, center, jokes with her daughters Joann, right, and Jordan and family friend Tammy Solomay, left, as they help make stuffed grape leaf rolls at the granite island that is the center of Karam’s Friendswood kitchen. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
It’s all about family, friends and their shared Lebanese culture in Leslie and Jerome Karam’s Friendswood kitchen. [Read more…]
Nancy Markham, and her dog, Honey, love their open concept kitchen that’s the heart of her home. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
It definitely wasn’t love at first sight. In fact, “a pile of sticks” is how Nancy Markham describes her first impression of the Galveston Island property she now calls home. [Read more…]
Judy Mayfield-Scott’s custom designed kitchen features state-of-the-art appliances and has a “strawberries and cream” theme. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
It’s the dream of all serious cooks — an up-to-date kitchen that works as hard as they do. [Read more…]
Norma Rubin prepares pasta with peppers and pesto in the art deco kitchen of her island home. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
The style known as art deco is as noteworthy today in the Galveston Island home of Norma and Sandy Rubin as when first introduced in Paris during the 1925 International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts. [Read more…]
Paintings by Todd White are showcased at a small cocktail bar just outside of Teffeny Caruso’s kitchen in her East End home. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Balmy breezes have replaced icy blizzards for Galveston transplant Teffeny Caruso. A Michigan native, Caruso moved into her historic home on the island’s East End only about a year ago. But she’s already deep into the heart of all things Texan. [Read more…]
Brenda Norwood’s West End kitchen is not especially large, but everything is arranged just where it needs to be for easy cooking or entertaining. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Strong bold lines, rugged stone, intricately carved wood, colored glass and elegantly worked metals define the culinary and dining areas of Brenda Norwood’s modern home in Pirates Cove. [Read more…]
Alicia Cahill stands in the newly renovated kitchen of her Galveston home. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
It all began with a previously undetected leak in the decades-old kitchen plumbing. As the relatively new owners of their 1920s home in Galveston’s historic Denver Court area, Alicia Cahill and her husband, Chris, had discussed a kitchen redo, but this was definitely not the time. [Read more…]
Karen Morris loves cooking in her spacious Bacliff kitchen. Fresh-picked tomatoes atop the counter are the norm this time of year. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Karen Morris knew exactly what she wanted in a kitchen when she and her husband, Tom, built their Bacliff home in 2001. [Read more…]
Sue Bown’s enormous kitchen is the heart and soul of her 1900 era Dickinson home. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Sue Bown was 5 years old and in her grandmother’s kitchen when she baked her first cake.
“I was always fascinated with cooking,” said Bown, whose enormous Dickinson kitchen is outfitted with a commercial Garland stove, copper range hood, restaurant-grade triple sink, 10-foot stainless counter and a vast array of vintage collectibles. [Read more…]