I just read in yesterday's Food Matters column in the Statesman that Rebecca Rather's new Pastry Queen Parties book is out. Why is the Tipsy Texan shilling for a cookbook, you ask? Because the Tipsy Texans are IN this cookbook--we wrote many of the cocktail recipes for this book, which features six different cocktail parties staged at locations around Texas. One might wonder why Texas culinary royalty like Rebecca would want to pal around with scamps like us. Same reason why we get invited most places: Because we show up with the booze!