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Welcome to The Range, where you'll find unexpected stories about Texas cuisines and cultures. The Range explores the rich variety of Texas foods: from old traditions to new innovations. You'll hear from a diverse group of Texans who are in the thick of growing, cooking, distributing, and eating food.

As a production of Foodways Texas, we bring a sense of history to the many voices who you’ll find meeting at the table in this contentious, boisterous, and rapidly changing state. In this podcast, borders are always permeable, food is always changing, stereotypes are right for busting — but our table is big enough to accommodate the range of it. It’s Texas, after all.

The Range Episodes

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Ranching Below the Nueces
Ranching Below the Nueces

In this second episode of The Range, we talk to the McAllen family, owners of the McAllen Ranch north of Edinburg, Texas. The family shares stories about their history, ranching culture, and the challenges of ranching in the changing borderland areas of Texas.

Beans
Beans

In our inaugural episode, we use the humble and ubiquitous bean to explore historical and current topics in Texas food. Beans here tell stories of belonging, from a 19th-century border dispute to a recent trip to Terlingua.