A NOTE TO OUR READERS:
"Top Ten in Texas" is from the June 2007 issue of "Texas Living: People & Places," a special section of Southern Living for our Texas readers.

Taste Texas. It’s sweet with peaches and honey, as filling as homemade breads crunchy with pecans, and as fresh as shrimp hours from the ocean. Here are ten places with the best of Texas from our soil, sunshine, and water, available either now or later in the year. Want to find other vendors of Texas fresh foods? You’ll find them in the "Go Texan" initiative online from the Texas Department of Agriculture. Visit www.gotexan.org.

Goodies From the Gulf
Rethink oysters. They come by boat up to the docks of Hillman Shrimp & Oyster Company in Dickinson. The company sells oysters to food distributors around the country, but you can get them fresh most months of the year at 10700 Hillman Drive in Dickinson, just south of Kemah, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 1-800-582-4416. Want some new oyster recipes? See www.hillmanoysters.com.