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"Last weekend, I celebrated a friend&amp;#039;s wedding in Austin, Texas. I had only a few hours before and after the ceremony to check out local restaurants, but I managed to sample plenty of delicious dishes. (I   love to eat!) Here are some Austin restaurants worth trying: Chef and owner John Bates of The Noble Pig brought me some of his signature sandwiches to try and the eponymous Noble Pig was my favorite. Tender, juicy pulled pork is squished between crisp slices of housemade bacon and toasty white bread. To follow my pork-on-pork meal, I ate a fat slice of chocolate cake from my hotel, The Driskill. Their pastry chef follows a recipe from 1886, the year the hotel was built. Turns out chocolate cake is timeless. Sure, it was late after the wedding reception, but I couldn&amp;#039;t leave Texas without having some barbecue. I headed over to Lambert&amp;#039;s downtown and listened to a fantastic band and got a spread from the bar menu: barbecued brisket and hot links, biscuits, Frito pie, and, for good measure, collard greens.   The day after I returned home, chef Lou Lambert&amp;#039;s new cookbook arrived in the mail. It was a lucky coincidence since I wanted to recreate the flavors I had in Texas. Lisa Fain&amp;#039;s new cookbook, The Homesick Texan, is also a wonderful resource for trying dishes from the Lone Star state. To see how we get inspired by American food from across the country, come visit us in the Test Kitchen on a Good Housekeeping Research Institute Tour. For more info on the state of Texas, check out the Daily Green. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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