About the Author

During the last twenty years Bill Stephens has written over 1,000 weekly columns on wine, food, travel, and outdoors for Murdoch, Harte Hanks, and Hearst newspapers. His features and contributions have appeared in national periodicals like Chef, Wine Spectator, Wine News, Wine Enthusiast, Field & Stream, and Food & Wine. He has published two short stories “The Decanter, A Christmas Story” and  “Toby Tire and His Erratic Curve Ball”

At one point during his three-decade food service career, he concurrently owned and operated a leading white tablecloth restaurant, three airline in-flight kitchens, three employee feeding facilities, catered a dinner train, and his company was third largest full service off-premise caterer in South Texas.

Stephen’s catering clients included Texas governors, presidential candidates, the family of the King of Saudi Arabia, The Prince of Wales, Pope John Paul II, Tom Jones, Neal Diamond, Willie Nelson, and many other notables. He continues as a journalist and an active restaurant consultant.

As an avid outdoorsman he has hunted and fished from Alaska to Mexico. He has ridden Harley Davidson motorcycles several times across the country: border to border, coast to coast, and over 12,000 miles in Mexico. 

He graduated from the University of Texas, Austin, with an engineering degree and has studied postgraduate economics and creative writing. He lives in Texas with his wife and her four cats.

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