Violet Crown

Violet Cro n Whats up with Austin’s parks?

How Austin’s culture and parks are changing

How does the growing population affect Austin?

Growing population leading to growing concerns

Spring 2018

Table of Contents Introductions Letter from the Editors ............................2 Meet the Editors ......................................3

Cover Stories A Walk in the Park ..................................4 How Population Growth has Impacted Austin ....................................................10

Other Stories Austin Startups ......................................16 The Hole Story ......................................22

More Fun Stuff What to do in Austin Quiz .......................8 Timeline of Austin Tech ........................14 Live Music in Austin .............................20 What the Truck? ....................................26

Cover edited by: Ailsa Grieve Inside Covers edited by: Alden Little

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Letter from the Editors This magazine is about Austin, Texas, the capital of the state, and live music capital of the world. The four stories are based on the food, the new startups, population and the great outdoors of Austin, Texas. Violet Crown is a nickname given to Austin for its beautiful purple skyline. “Violet Crown” was created by 4 high school students who put time and effort into all the stories to inform people about the beautiful place we call Austin. We decided to make a magazine revolving around Austin because it combined all of our interests with Austin’s unique environment and culture. The four editors, Sebastian, Karma, Alden and Ailsa worked hard on this magazine to provide everyone with places for pastries, inform people about population and new startups and tell people about the great outdoors of Austin Texas.

Meet the Editors

Alden Little is a varsity softball player on the LBJ/LASA softball team and plays with two other teams outside of school. She enjoys playing card games such as blackjack with her family in her free time. Alden also enjoys hanging out with her friends and softball family when she has the time between softball and school.

Ailsa Grieve is a dancer, and has participated in ballet for 8 years. In her free time Ailsa enjoys hanging out with friends, and photography.

Ailsa also enjoys reading, and spends way to much money on books. Her favorite book series is the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard.

Karma Desai is a freshman at LASA who enjoys being a part of her competitive swimming team, and is very active in her school’s FRC robotics team. Karma also loves spending her free time by hanging out with her friends and family.

Sebastian Reyes is a freshman at LASA who likes to have some fun.

Sebastian likes listening to rap music with his favorite artists being xxxtentacion, J Cole, Tee Grizzley and Logic. His favorite song is State of Emergency by Logic. In his free time Sebastian likes hanging out with friends and playing Fortnite.

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A Walk in the Park How Austin’s parks and culture are affected by the growing population and changing city, and some of the ways you can get outside.

By Alden Little

A Zilker Park runner looking at the Austin view. Austin is a city that is surrounded by parks and culture, literally shown as the park wraps around the city above.

Pictures courtesy of the City Of Austin Government Website

ustin is a growing and rapidly changing city, but it has experienced growing pains. These changes affect what was once the cities prized possessions, Austin’s parks and culture.

In summer, 2016, Austin experienced record numbers of people, approaching one million people with a population of 949,785. Two years later, Austin has an estimated population of 966,860. These rapid changes aren’t sudden, Austin has had a growth rate of 3 percent over the past ten years. Austin’s parks and wacky culture has drawn many people to this city, and allowed Austin to gain the catch phrase, “Keep Austin Weird”, The culture of Austin has and become always been a place of outknown for its siders. It’s been a welcoming beautiful parks and springs city for people who didn’t which can’t be necessarily want to live in found in other big cities around some of the more Bible the world.

Belt or uptight parts of East With more Texas or other parts of the and more people entering Austin, South but wanted kind of it is hard to keep a settled life, it’s kind of on the things that make Austin the edge between the south what it once was and the Southwest. the same.

- Julius Young, Austinite/Segway Tour “With so many Guide people moving here, we’re just becoming more of a big city, ” said Julius Young, a segway tour guide in Austin and Austin local.

This rapid change in Austin comes with more pollution caused by more people.

“There’s a little more wear and tear.” said Aaron Levine.

The growing city must preserve these parks, springs, and historical sights which can’t be created or found anymore.

“You don’t necessarily see pools built like this anymore. Even if you did have a creek you could dam off. It’s rare that you can find that.” said Levine.

Kimberly McNeely, Austin’s current acting director of parks and recreation has provided an example of how Austin’s park culture has faded away.

“When I first came here they used to call Austin a city within a park, and I think that tagline has sort of just gone away.” said McNeely. Though as Austin grows in size, it’s parks and culture shrink.

“I think that there’s an attraction to be able come to Austin or to live in Austin because it’s so easy to be able to access nature or 5

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Kayakers on Lady Bird Lake and runners running above on a bridge.

As Austin has grown, the parks close to the city allow for people to get outdoors and exercise.

Picture Coutresy of City of Austin

to live in Austin because it’s so easy natural. We don’t clean it with any to be able to access nature or our harsh chlorine or anything like that. cultural centers or general recreation We scrub the algae from it and it’s centers or swimming pools. I think really kind of a nice balance between that it’s easily accessible and it helps keeping it clean for the swimmers people to have opportunities to do and keeping it habitable for all the things when they’re not working wild life that’s in there.” said Levine. and unwind and ease stress. I think To prevent mass amounts that’s something that Austin values.”

McNeely explained, which is why people are attracted to Austin.

“It brings people outdoors that brings people out to our parks which we have a huge park system and it’s just, it’s a wonderful wonderful benefit for city just to be able to get people walking outdoors, and to be able to offer pools for low or no cost to neighborhoods that may or may not be able to have them otherwise.” said Levine.

There are health benefits, as well as economic impacts from pools, Image Courtesy of City of Austin Website.

The City of Austin’s skyscrapers surrounded by many trees springs, and parks. and the parks system.

“Believe it or not there are economic benefits, there’s statistics out there that show when you have of pollution from the growing a park, property that is near a park population, education is key. is usually valued more than property “It’s important that people that is further away from a park.” understand, in order to conserve not said McNeely. just springs but really the natural Beneficial parks and springs are environment of the park system and not random, they are all made to suit everything else that we have here the community they are in to draw within the city. It takes everybody families outside. because somebody way out in West “We have Bartholomew Pool Texas who lives on Barton Creek over on 51st Street. That kinda or a business out there affects what has a couple of waterslides and a happens downstream as well, it’s all little activity pool in addition to an interconnected and important that area for lap swimming and a diving people understand the ecological board so there’s really a nice family impact of their actions.” said Levine. friendly atmosphere over there.

Part of Barton Springs was And every pool has its own unique designed to educate the public on feel to it and depending on the these matters. neighborhood and what the citizens “It’s a little exhibit that explains in that neighborhood want out of it.” Edwards Aquifer, recharge zones, said Levine. and how water and rain finds its way The springs also are maintained back to the creeks and the rivers that for the public. we’re living and swimming in and “There’s no chemicals. So a lot of really how Barton Springs works a people are drawn to it because it’s little bit so it’s a real neat thing, and

they have some salamanders over there, if you can see them if they’re not too shy”. Levine said.

These parks hold more than just environmental awareness events, but also draw attention to all different topics, such as celebrating culture.

“I like to go to some of our cultural events specifically, dia delos muertos, which is at the Mexican American Cultural Center. And there’s also a New Years every year up at our Asian American Resource Center.

There’s a New Years celebration and it celebrates the Asian culture that I go to often.” McNeely said, explaining the events there are.

The parks also have fun activities for all people, which can be signed up for. These events are made to be inclusive for everyone.

“Regardless of an individual’s abilities we encourage individuals to sign up for our classes, and if they need additional assistance to be successful because of a disability then we sign an inclusion aid to make sure that those individuals have an experience that is inviting and worthwhile for them.” explained McNeely.

“The culture of Austin has always been a place of outsiders. It’s been a welcoming city for people who didn’t necessarily want to live in some of the more Bible Belt or uptight parts of East Texas or other parts of the South but wanted kind of a settled life, it’s kind of on the edge between the south and the Southwest.” said Young.

Whether Austin is developing negatively and losing its culture and items that make the city special, people are doing what they can to help preserve the gems of Austin that attract people to it. Debatably, Austin’s growing population and new people formed the city and created what it is today.

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What To Do In Austin Quiz No

Would you spend your time with your fuzzy friend if you could?

Yes

Maybe

Adventurous

What is your favorite subject?

English or History I hate all subjects

What type of eater are you?

Picky

I don’t really care

Math or Science

Studying

How do you think time should be spent on the weekends?

Hanging out with freinds Excercising

What should you do this weekend or on your week off in Austin?

This quiz was designed to help everyone choose what to do in Austin based off of their personality and how they are feeling. The three options that you can get are going on a segway tour, going to a park, and going to Barton Springs. These options were chosen based off the different cultural presence in Austin.

The segway tours of Austin themselves aren’t very culturally significant, but what you can learn about Austin is endless with the different options of tours you can take.

Going to a park is an option because there are many different oppertunities you can find at a park! At a park you can run, hang out with the dogs, or sign up for the many different classes and events that the Austin Parks department provides!

The final option provided is go to Barton Springs pool, where you can swim in the springs, but also learn about the wild life and swim with the little criters as well!

All of these options share one thing in common, they are all outside! These options are to get people moving outside, while learning about the Austin culture and keeping it thriving.

9 + hours

Go On A Segway Tour!

6 to 9 hours

> 6 hours

How much sleep do you get?

No way!

Would you change yourself?

Yeah Maybe

What is your favorite book genre?

Nonfiction Fiction Sciece Fiction

At home

Where do you want to be?

Another Country

Go to a Park!

Another State

The mom friend Do you think you’re...

A cool person A nerd

High fashion Casual Would you describe your fashion sense as...

Yes Kinda

Are you satisfied with life?

What would you be famous for?

Punk

No Being a Leader Discovery Entertainment

Swim! Go to a local spring or pool!

20 - 60 How old do you wish you could be?

60+ 20 or less

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How Population Growth has Impacted Austin

By Ailsa Grieve

A metro train in Downtown Austin. Transportation in Austin is a large problem, and currently there is some major construction underway in the city to try and assist traffic problems.

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ustin’s population has been rapidly growing, and many think that the city has not kept up. While Austin is thriving economically, there are many issues the city faces, ranging from the environment to infrastructure.

In 1985 Austin’s population was close to 400,000, in 2016 it was about 950,000. Austin has seen a mass migration to the city, as its tech industries boom.

Some websites, like forbes.com, have even called

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The city as far as square miles hasn’t changed but we almost doubled the number of people that are here.

- Rodney Ahart, Executive Director of Keep Austin Beautiful

Photo courtesy of the City of Austin.

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Austin the next Silicon Valley.

Austin is home to many major tech companies, like Dell and Google, as well as a popular place for startups. Not to mention Austin is the live music capital, has great education opportunities, and is home to many popular restaurants and food trucks.

While Austin has many positive qualities like these, the city also has many issues that it faces.

Many Austinites acknowledge that traffic is one of the city’s biggest concerns. James Murray, a long time resident, said traffic is one of the major problems he believes Austin is facing.

“Traffic congestion has been caused by the large amount of people moving into Central Texas, but also because of decisions taken years back to not invest in public transport and road infrastructure,” said Murray.

There have been projects to try and assist with the traffic. There is now a $428 million budget to fund the mobility project. This money comes from the $720 million bond that the city voted yes to in 2016.

The problems with traffic relate to Austin’s overall problem with infrastructure.

“The city as far as square miles hasn’t changed but we almost doubled the number of people that are here,” said Rodney Ahart, the executive director of Keep Austin Beautiful. “And so we have11

Photo courtesy of the City of Austin.

A skater competes in the X Games in 2014.

As Austin has grown, many large events have been held in the city such as the X Games and Formula 1.

infrastructure challenges, we have far more people than our current infrastructure can handle so it’s really important that we work to ensure our infrastructure improves for our city.”

One of the biggest infrastructure problems in Austin is housing. Housing costs in Austin are extremely high, with forbes.com ranking Austin in the top 5 overpriced housing markets of 2017. One reason for this is the lack of workers.

With so many people moving to Austin there is a need for more and more housing.

However, as the amount of available land and workers shrink, these houses become more expensive to build leading to very high house prices.

These high property values can make it hard for small businesses and startups to open and stay open.

“Our property values are some of the highest in the US and that makes owning property hard for a startup,” said Beth Beall, co-owner of Texas Coffee Traders.”At the same time, we have a whole lot of hoops to jump through with our permitting process that adds time and expense to starting a business.”

Businesses have faced many problems in relation to the growth of the city.

“We started to have people come around and ask to purchase our property,” said Beall. “It had become a developers area and for a while, it was fairly intense with all the changing of who owned what and who wanted what. Buildings

and homes that had been in our area forever would suddenly no longer be there and soon lots of construction was going on all around us.”

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We started to have people come around and ask to purchase our property. It had become a developers area and for a while, it was fairly intense with all the changing of who owned what and who wanted what. Buildings and homes that had been in our area forever would suddenly no longer be there and soon lots of construction was going on all around us.

- Beth Beall, Co-Owner of Texas Coffee Traders

us to ensure that we maintain open space and green space, and just active space that families can utilize,” said Ahart. “I think that we have huge scarcities in regards to having access to clean green and beautiful spaces, and as we have more development that’s coming. Our goal is to engage citizens in transforming the community.

We work with volunteers to do standard cleanups, to do landscaping projects, to education programs as well.”

KAB holds large events each year that get huge amounts of the city’s population involved. KAB has also helped bring awareness to Austin’s residents about the importance of green spaces.

While Austin does face these challenges there are also many aspects of Austin that make the city special.

Austin hosts two large music festivals every year which draw in large crowds, SXSW and ACL. There are also many high ranking, well-performing schools, such as the Liberal Arts and Science Academy.

Austin also has so much culture special to the city.

“The challenge now is...to make some effort to share with our newest Austinites what our city is, what our city’s culture is, and that is, of course, a challenge,” Ahart said.

While the city faces many challenges, it is also thriving.

What’s important is to balance development with preservation, and continuing to appreciate and share Austin culture.

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There are groups that are aimed to help businesses in Austin such as AIBA, or the Austin Independent Business Alliance, that advocates for small businesses in Austin.

“It helps to have a resource for what is going on, what to expect, how to get involved,” said Beall.

With the growth of Austin, there has also been a loss of green space. Keep Austin Beautiful works to preserve the green spaces in Austin.

“I think what is critical is for

1967- IBM plant opens

Timeline of Austin Tech 2018- Amazon announces Austin is on the list of possible locations for their headquarters

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2011- First Austin startup week is held.

1974- Motorola moves to Austin. In time it would become one of the largest employers, with 11,000 employees

CROWN 1984- Dell is founded in Austin

1995- First SXSW Interactive is held

1996- Silicon Labs founded in Austin, it has grown to be a international semicondutor company.

Austin Startups

By Karma Desai

Picture Coutresy of City of Austin Austin is a rapidly growing city and has become a hub for startups.

ustin is home to hundreds of startups that have grown into successful companies from Dell to Wholefoods, and many startups still have yet to be discovered. Numerous entrepreneurs have chosen Austin as the founding city for their startup.

A startup is a new, fast-growing business created by an entrepreneur with an aim to meet a marketplace need. Entrepreneurs can range from a third-grader creating a solution to a project to Bill Gates.

Beginning the process of creating a company varies from startup to startup. Many begin with talking about the idea of a startup.

“My first step to creating Tenfold was simply talking to my peers about my ideas and vision for

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Austin has helped us in more ways than we can imagine.

-Mohit Lad, Co-owner of Thousand Eyes

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a new business,” Patrick Hogan talked about his first goal of “getting friends and family to say it was a good idea.” Hogan is the CEO and founder of Tenfold: a company that integrates all customer conversations into data in real-time. He founded this startup in 2014, and has been running the company ever since.

“When I first came up with the idea of Thousand Eyes, I didn’t know I wanted to make it a real company,” said Lad. Thousand Eyes is a startup that monitors network structure and maps internet performance. This was founded

by Dr. Mohit Lad who wanted to continue his research in the computer science field. “Later I was telling my parents and they said I should create a business out of it. So, my first step to creating this startup would be to research and see if it is already an existing idea that others had.”

Ben Rubenstein is one of the co-founders along with Michael Lam and CEO of a 17

Tenfold team members gather around the Austintatious Mural in downtown. Tenfold is a startup

real-estate startup that makes agent to customer networking easier. They found a problem in their field and decided to fix it.

“We came up with this idea because the home buying and selling experience for brokers, agents and consumers has historically been complex and at times extremely frustrating, and we wanted to simplify that process,” said Rubenstein. “There are many different real estate agents, but about half of them have sold one, or less than one home in the past year. Streamlining the process between the client and the agents will make buying property much easier,” said Rubenstein on how he and Lam created the idea of Opcity.

The next step that most startups take is gaining a capital. Startup founders and CFOs appeal to investors to boost their business.

“In 2015, we went through the San Antonio TechStars

Accelerated and raised $15 M in seed capital with the help of Andreessen Horowitz who bought into our company,” said Hogan on how he raised money for his ideas.

Other startups also had the idea to apply for grants. “Actually, last year we raised $27M for our company through a Series A,” said Rubenstein.

The series he refers to are rounds of investment a startup and go through to gain capital.

“A lot of the money was used to create our base on Cesar Chavez Street downtown,” Rubenstein explained.

Another option that startups can go through are investors.

“In 2011, we received a $500K National Science Foundation grant to help us on DNS infrastructure troubleshooting,” Lad said. “We also received $5.5M from Sequoia Capital, $20M from Sequoia Capital and

Sutter Hill Ventures. Lastly, in 2016 Tenaya Capital and GV joined a Series C round, along with previous investors, with $35M more in capital,” said Lad. Thousand Eyes has connected with a lot of investors to help his company.

Establishing a startup in Austin has overall proven to be more beneficial to companies than other cities. Austin is a booming city that is home to many events designed to help startups. Hogan who is originally from San Francisco, California, moved to gain access to the opportunities that only Austin could offer.

“Starting my business in Austin has given me the opportunity to reach out to others who are in the same boat as me very easily. Austin hosts a ‘startup’ week and SXSW which I found very helpful,” said Hogan. Austin Startup

Week is an event for young companies to meet others like them and learn from successful startups. “Both of these events have helped me use word-ofmouth to grow my business, and [have] helped me learn from others.”

“Being in Austin has helped us in more ways that we can imagine. We are able to reach out to more customers and do more outreach as a business.

Austin also has many events designed specifically for young businesses,” said Lad as he refers to the same events as Hogan.

Austin helps each startup in its own way. Through its lifestyle to its greed for software companies moving in.

“Austin is a growing city and has prime real estate.

Austin also helps out its young startups and has many events where they give out grants to

businesses. Both Michael and I thought that Austin would be an ideal place for a startup about real estate.”said Rubenstein. All three startups have said Austin is an ideal place to create a startup.

Many entrepreneurs don’t make a successful business on their first try. “I started a few businesses in high school but Tenfold is really the one that spread its wings and took off,” said Hogan.

The founders even kept multiple jobs incase their company didn’t take off, “Before I made Thousand Eyes my full-time job, I was a software engineer, and a Sr. services manager. And even before that, I earned my Ph.D. at UCLA,” said Lad. “Before Opcity, I had helped in a startup called Yodel. I was the Co-founder, Vice President of Sales Operations. Yodel really helped me build a backbone on how I should build Opcity.

Things ran much more smoothly

the second time around,” said Rubenstein.

Creating a startup is a tough project, and it brings the people you work with closer together.

“My employees, friends, family, and I have all spent countless hours into this start-up. We had mounds of work and many late nights in the beginning of creating Tenfold, but since then it has gotten easier. We are still a very close-knit team,” said Hogan.

Rubenstein worked very closely with a partner to create his dream. “My experience working with Michael [co-founder] has been amazing,” said Rubenstein.

“We were in this project from the start and he has been amazing.”

Startups are fun and exciting, and Austin holds many opportunities that entrepreneurs can take advantage of to help their startup grow.

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Live Music in Austin 4

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1 Long Center Performing arts venue along Lady Bird Lake Hosts operas, ballets, jazz, etc.

Three levels of seating

2 Stubbs BBQ BBQ restaurant with concert venue All types of pop, alt, and more Standing room only

3 Frank Erwin Center Multi-purpose arena at UT Austin Large artists, world tours Three levels of seating

4 Bass Concert Hall Performing arts center with many theatres Musicals and major artists Three levels of seating

5 ACL Live Moody Theatre Hosts ACL Live that plays often Variety of artists come to perform Two levels of seating with standing room

6 Emo’s Club style music venue in downtown Alternative and rock music Standing room only

7 The Continental Club Live music bar Small artists Standing room only

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The Hole Story

A rack filled with Voodoo Doughnuts. The doughnuts on the rack are ready to be sold to the customers of Voodoo Doughnuts.

Courtesy of Sara Heise

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ustin is known for their variety of food, from Indian food to Chinese, Mexican, and many pastries. Many businesses have either opened up or moved to Austin for the chance to increase their business.

Donut shops have opened up in Austin to gain recognition, such as Voodoo Doughnuts and Bougie’s Donuts which are donut shops in Austin. They have gained a lot of recognition and are big competitors in the donut business because one is from Portland and the other is Austin originated.“Most people like

doughnuts, old people like donuts and kids and babies like doughnuts,” said Tracy Shannon, cofounder of the famous Voodoo Doughnuts Voodoo Doughnuts, a business that originated in Portland and recently opened a shop in Austin. Tracy ‘Tres’ Shannon opened up a shop

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There’s just a lot of great opportunities and Austin makes things work.

- Tracy Shannon, Co-founder of Voodoo Doughnuts

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in Portland with his business partner, Kenneth ‘Cat Daddy’ Pogson, because they felt Portland had everything but doughnuts. They opened a shop and named it Voodoo Doughnuts. They later expanded their business to Denver, Colorado and Austin.

“There’s never been a doughnut shop. There’s pastry shop there’s cake shops there’s pie shops.

There weren’t any doughnut shops, there wasn’t anything before, we might as well put one in” said Shannon on why he and his partner created their business.

Voodoo was one of the first doughnut shops to innovate the way people eat and see donuts by adding cereal, bacon, and cookies to the doughnuts. Shannon and Pogson decided to take a leap to renovate their donuts not knowing if people would be critical or weirded out over their newly invented donuts.

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Courtesy of Vodoo Doughnuts

Buttermilk Bars

(Shannon’s Favorite Doughnut)

Ingredients • • • • • • • •

1 2/3 cups all purpose flour 2/3 cups sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 cup buttermilk 1 large eggs 1 1/2 tbsp butter, melted and cooled • 1 tsp vanilla extract • 4 cups (approx) vegetable oil (for frying)

Glaze

1 1/2 cups confectioner’s sugar 3 tbsp milk (approx) 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

In a medium bowl, whisk together buttermilk, eggs, melted butter and vanilla extract. Pour mixture into the dry ingredients and stir until a thick dough forms. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.

On a floured surface, press the dough into a square about 1/2-inch thick. Cut square into quarters, then cut each quarter into sixths (making 24 small rectangles).

Pour oil into a medium/large pot and heat to 355-360F. Cook the donuts for about 2 minutes per side, or until deep golden brown.

Allow donuts to cool slightly while the icing is prepared. Drizzle icing over donuts and serve.

Icing: Whisk together confectioners’ sugar, milk and vanilla until glaze is smooth. For a thinner glaze, add a few additional teaspoons of milk. For a thicker glaze, whisk in a few additional tablespoons of sugar.

Popular Voodoo Doughnuts next to the Voodoo box.

Voodoo Doughnuts specializes in making original donuts like their most iconic donut, the Voodoo Doll.

Courtesy of Miranda Anderson A signature Bougie Donut in front of their shop.

Bougie’ Donuts has gotten a lot of recognition from their mix style of coffee and unique donuts like the Chocolate Bacon Donut.

Courtesy of Bougie’s Donuts

“I mean we renovated and shop.

He started his business here in repurposed the donut shop. The donut concept has been kind of Austin to gain regular customers. the same for 80 to 100 years. Brown wanted to appeal more Then we started putting cereal to the locals than the tourists because he wanted for people to on them, we put bacon on it.”

Voodoo has a tough buy his donuts rather than tourists competitor when it comes to that come every year.

“Mainly because I like selling doughnuts. Bougie’s Donuts is a local donut shop doughnuts. But also. After doing that has boomed with business some research found out that doughnuts are the second most ever since its opening.

“I worked for this cell phone profitable food item behind, potatoes,” said business, people Brown on why were not necessarily he created his always happy to see I don’t feel like business. me walking through doughnuts you W h e n the door. And I’m Brown first have to sell too not like that you wanted to know, it’s one of hard. That was open up a those things where another reason I donut shop, if you’re carrying liked the doughnut he observed a box of donuts , other shops anything like that, business. Most here and was it’s going to put a people have a disappointed smile on your face,” penchant for when he said Ryan Brown, sweets and found out that founder and owner they either of Bougie’s Donuts.

- Ryan Brown, Cofounder of Bougie’s had mediocre Brown created donuts donuts with Bougie’s after bad coffee or being laid off bad donuts from his previous job. He decided to go into the with good coffee. Brown hopes donut business because when to make his donut/coffee shop a working in his previous job, relaxing environment with good not everyone was happy to see donuts and good coffee.

“Just felt like there were donut him, but when he came in with a box of donuts, smiles lit up shops that did donuts okay and the coffee was really bad or there the room.

He named his donut shop was coffee shops that did coffee after his dog Bougie, which really well but the pastry game means different and better. He was really weak. And so my goal wanted his shop to be different is to bring both to the table at the and better than the other pastry same time and ultimately utilize shop here in Austin with those donuts and coffee,” said Bougie’s being a donut/coffee Brown about different shops here in Austin.

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Blueberry Fritters (Brown’s Favorite Donut)

Ingredients • • • • • • • • • • •

1 1/4 cup flour 1/3 cup sugar 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup milk 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 Tbs melted butter 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 tsp lemon zest 1 cup blueberries Oil for frying

Glaze

1 1/2 cup powdered sugar 4-5 Tbs lemon juice Zest of 1 lemon

Instructions

Pre-heat your deep fryer to 375.

In bowl whisk together your flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.

In separate bowl mix together your milk, egg, vanilla, butter and lemon zest.

Slowly mix into your dry ingredients until just combined.

Fold in your blueberries gently.

Drop by Tablespoonfuls into hot oil and fry turning a few times for 3-4 minutes.

Turn out onto paper towel lined plate to drain.

To make glaze stir together your powdered sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest.

Dip each of your fritters into the glaze and let set for a few minutes.

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What The Truck!?

by Sebastian Reyes

These trucks represent the higest rated food trucks in Austin.

The name of the truck, the Yelp rating, and their signature course can be seen on the trucks. The trucks themselve are also

Veracruz All Natural

Yelp Rating: 41/2 stars; 538 reviews Sign itu re Cou rses: La Reyna and Migas Tacos

East Side King

Yelp Rating: 4 stars; 517 reviews Signiture Courses: Chicken Karaage and Waterfall pork

Micklethwait Craft Meats

Yelp Rating: 4 1/2 stars, 706 Signiture Courses: Brisket Frito Pie and 2 meat plate

Little Lucy’s MINI DONUTS

Yelp Rating: 4 1/2 stars; 206 reviews Signiture Course: Sugar Coated mini donuts

Chi’Lantro

Yelp Rating: 4 stars; 699 reviews Signiture Course: Kimchi Fries

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