The former Texas land commissioner looked askance at the stemless wineglass filled with iced tea.“Do you have a larger glass?” Jerry Patterson asked our waiter at a suspiciously modern Tex-Mex place. “Iced tea usually comes in a larger glass.”“We don’t have a larger glass, but I could keep refilling this one,” said the waiter, who seemed ambivalent about the generosity that the gigantic, translucent tumblers common in Tex-Mex restaurants represent.I didn’t like how my first meal with Patterson was starting off. I was there to make amends, and now my lunch companion was in a standoff with a waiter over liquid volume.We had planned to publish a story written by Patterson, a Vietnam veteran and state senator. (He was the subject of an entertaining 2008…
The post Why Our Latest Issue Is Even More Epic than Usual appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Read: Read More