The State of Texas: A Texas-style global feast

What Texas is talking about today No Images? [Click here]( [Visit Toby Keith's Barr & Grill]( [Texas Monthly]( November 16, 2018 QUOTE OF THE DAY "I've given at least five people heart attacks with this news. But for the most part, many of my closest friends, including some of my former teammates with the Cowboys, could not have been more happy and supportive." —Jeff Rohrer, a former Dallas Cowboy and the [first known NFL player]( to be in a same-sex marriage. Rohrer will marry his partner, Joshua Ross, on Sunday in Los Angeles. THE LATEST [Feast Around the World]( PATRICIA SHARPE We asked five of the state's top chefs to create festive meals to serve this season. What we got was a cornucopia of global flavors. Follow these recipes and your Texas table will never be the same again. [Read more.]( #TMWANDERS READER PHOTOS Moody, Texas • Photograph by [@]([roamingcamera]( We love seeing how our readers enjoy Texas. Want to join the fun? Tag your best Texas photos #TMwanders on Instagram, and we'll reach out if yours is chosen! We'll feature a new reader post here each Friday. QUIZ ANSWERS We’ll feature a news quiz every Thursday, with answers posted in Friday’s newsletter. Below are the answers for yesterday’s quiz. There won't be a quiz next week, because we'll be eating turkey. 1. Toki, a red-tailed boa constrictor, was found in a Goodwill sorting facility [months after he went missing](. 2. Dennis Bonnen is likely the [new House Speaker](. He is taking over for Joe Straus, who once named him as his Speaker pro tempore. 3. This week Amazon named the new home(s) of its second headquarters, passing up Texas cities Austin and Dallas, which were on the shortlist of final destinations. 4. Fixer Upper duo Chip and Joanna Gaines announced late last week that they would launch a new network in partnership with Discovery. 5. Appearing [on Saturday Night Live](, representative-elect Dan Crenshaw said Pete Davidson looked like a "Troll doll with a tapeworm." [Visit Toby Keith's Barr & Grill]( OUR TOP STORIES [Try Smoked Brisket Pizza at Roast Social Kitchen in Tyler]( For his second restaurant, Stanley’s pitmaster Nick Pencis indulged his passion for pizza. [Read More]( [Shea Serrano’s New Podcast, Villains, is Like Listening in on His Movie Club]( That’s a club we would like to join. [Read More]( [Medical Marijuana Leads Bill Count on First Day of Filing for Next Texas Legislature]( Nearly 300 bills were filed by Monday morning. The vast majority of them will never make it to the governor’s desk to become law. [Read More]( THE STATE OF TEXAS Weed Killer Y'all. Nearly 10 million Texans have [consumed some level of atrazine](—a toxic herbicide—in our drinking water, according to a new [report](. A whopping 472 water utility systems across the state tested positive for at least one detection. The Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group, which released the report, believes that the water utilities could be lowballing the amount of detected atrazine. The report also notes that tests for atrazine are being run outside of peak growing season, when farmers wouldn't use the herbicide as frequently. A Fruitless Search Dozens of Fort Worth police officers [spent hours]( helping a man searching for his daughter. The problem? She didn't exist. John Jerald Ratcliff allegedly went door-to-door Wednesday, asking people in an apartment complex if they had seen his three-year-old. At 11:30 p.m., the apartment residents called the cops, who helped Ratcliff search through the night. It was 6:30 a.m. before officers found out he didn't have children. Ratcliff faces a misdemeanor charge of filing a false release report. Conspiracy Granny A judge sent a woman who has been [involved in harassing survivors]( of the Sutherland Springs massacre to a psychiatric facility. Jodi Marie Mann, who calls herself "Conspiracy Granny," has already spent four months in federal prison under psychiatric evaluation, but a report ordered by a judge in June shows that she may have trouble with her understanding of reality. Mann's boyfriend, Robert Ussery, is accused of illegally possessing a gun when he confronted Pastor Frank Pomeroy—whose daughter was among 26 worshipers killed—on the lawn of Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church in March. Mann is charged with aiding and abetting her boyfriend in possessing the gun in the incident, as well as a cache of weapons found later at Ussery’s home. LONGFORM [Poisoning Daddy]( SKIP HOLLANDSWORTH How a loving daughter and star student stole barium acetate from her high school chemistry lab, put it in her father’s refried beans, and almost got away with murder. 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