Despite downsizing,Ted and Brandi Harkins, with their son Sailor, have incorporated a sense of luxury in the kitchen of their Galveston home. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Some may call it downsizing, but Galveston residents Brandi and Ted Harkins call their move from a large mainland house to a small island bungalow “right-sizing.” [Read more…]
The free-standing island in Kathye and Tom Epley’s kitchen is topped with a slab of veined granite that took six workers to get into the house. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Looking for what they hoped would be a quieter way of life, Tom and Kathye Epley moved from the Galveston area to Huntsville. [Read more…]
Sara Salzman mixes a bowl of charoset, a traditional Passover dish made with Manischewitz wine, honey, cinnamon, apples and walnuts, in the kitchen of her Galveston home. Photo by Stuart Villanueva
Fresh ideas are blended with ancient culinary traditions year-round in Sara Salzman’s cozy Galveston kitchen, but the season of Passover holds special importance. [Read more…]
Gini Brown doesn’t spend much time cooking, unless it’s for entertaining. One of her go-to dishes for parties is her Caviar Twinkie. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Galveston author and historian Gini Brown would be the first to admit that cooking is not among her favorite activities. But when a faulty interior water line resulted in a flood that required tearing out most of the main floor of her Offatts Bayou condominium, Brown found herself knee-deep in a major kitchen remodel. [Read more…]
Derick Stonecipher’s loft in the 1896 Galveston Telegraph and Telephone Building in downtown Galveston is an open-concept combination of kitchen, dining and living areas. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Surrounded by 25-foot-tall ceilings, stately windows, exposed brick walls and a faux concrete-faced fireplace, Derick Stonecipher begins his days by whipping up a frothy green health drink in his newly acquired loft kitchen in downtown Galveston. [Read more…]
Mary Dickson wanted her kitchen to be warm and inviting. She chose rich earth tones and made the space comfortable for guests to relax as she cooks. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Texas City resident Mary Dickson and renowned French chef Jacques Pépin have very similar ideas about what makes a perfect kitchen. [Read more…]
Lane and Pat Cobden designed the kitchen of their home on Christmas Tree Point Road in Galveston to be a family-friendly, working kitchen to accommodate their large family gatherings. Photo by Jennifer Reynolds
Carved sea-blue mermaids, a clock shaped like an ice cream cone and child-level cabinets filled with toys help make every day a holiday in the kitchen of Pat and Lane Cobden’s home on Christmas Tree Point Road in Galveston. [Read more…]
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…]