Meet your host, Twisty Faster. Twisty grew up on a farm in Texas. One day she went to St. Louis, Missouri. There she was drugged and held prisoner without any decent tacos for 25 years. Eventually she was able to reach escape velocity, whereupon she hooked it back to Texas pronto. She now divides her time between a bungalow in North South Austin and a ranch in the Texas Hill Country.

Twisty's pop culture credentials include coming of age in one of today's most popular decades, the 70's. She studied E Lit at Washington University in St. Louis for a while, toiled as a bartender for a while, wrote songs and played guitar in a couple of loud rock bands, and wrote songs and played Casio in one quiet Casio band, for a while.

For a while, Twisty was a restaurant critic at a Midwestern news weekly. Her unorthodox views regarding provel "cheese," combined with her effete and pompous style, earned her a prestigious James Beard Award nomination in the early 21st century, which we mention merely to alleviate any anxiety that she is without credentials in the food-obsession racket.

Twisty and her chum Stingray will be opening The Anne Richards Memorial Wine Bar in Austin in 2007.

Meanwhile, she is a spinster aunt. These are her stories.