Tastefully Texas

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No matter where one travels in Texas at practically any time of the year in cities large and small some things remain constant: livestock shows rodeos and football-and Chef Mia Ellis rejects them all. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a Culinary Arts degree as proof that a cosmopolitan lifestyle awaits her Mia sublets her Houston apartment and buys a plane ticket to New York City only to get a call to come home to the Hill Country for a family emergency.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Upon arrival Mia finds herself completely unprepared for the town and the people she has outgrown. Her salvation is cooking-it's the only thing that has ever separated her from her hometown roots-but now that her job in N.Y.C. is on hold she still needs to earn. Unfortunately a dishwashing gig at an out-of-the-way bar and grill is all that's available.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It isn't until Mia reconnects with Jace her old high school sweetheart and heir to a Texas Century Ranch that she realizes she may still have a taste for Texas after all.</span></p>