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Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Page 3
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TC's Catfish knows how to fry fish right
REVIEWS OF ^/INDEPENDENT RESTAURANTS
Reporter's Rating:
★★★★★
Tony Gutierrez
StaffWriter
A passer-by would hardly
notice TC's Catfish if they were
not looking for it.
But the hole-in-the-wall
restaurant owned by TC Bowen
and his wife, Casharla, has done
well enough to stay open for four
years and 15 days.
TC's, on 1607 E. McKinney St.,
has four tables with three chairs
each for customer seating. The
Texas flag is painted on the
right wall, while the left wall
is papered and covered in a
world map.
My roommate, Mat, my
photographer buddy, Katherine,
and I walked into the restaurant
and sat at the table closest to
the door. On the wall opposite
the door, the owner talked on
the telephone while Casharla
took our orders from behind the
counter. Mat asked what was
good, and Casharla said people
enjoy the fillets.
The menu has a Texas flag
shadowing in the background.
The first three columns offer
catfish fillets, catfish steaks and
perch fillets ranging from $6 to
$40 for two to 25 pieces.
In addition to the fish, TC's
offers "home-cookin"' sides
including coleslaw, fried okra,
baked beans, hushpuppies,
French fries, ranch dressing,
extra tartar sauce and jala-
peños and desserts, both cake
and pie.
Mat ordered the three-piece
catfish fillet for $6.88, and I
decided on the three-piece
perch fillet for $6.25. Katherine
simply chose to munch on
French fries for $1.29. The food
was ready within five minutes.
The meals are served in divided
white Styrofoam containers,
along with disposable plates
and utensils. The forks, of
course, were not Styrofoam
(though that would be sweet)
but rather were plastic.
The box contained our fish,
along with fries, two slices of
bread, hushpuppies and a cup
of tartar sauce. I generally don't
like hushpuppies, but these had a
certain spice to them that made
them good.
I ordered the perch simply
because I felt sorry for it. I
mean, it's a catfish place so I
imagine people go for catfish,
not perch. Even so, the perch
did not disappoint me. The
breaded texture mixed with the
fish, and it was so soft it prac-
tically dissolved in my mouth.
Mat also said he enjoyed his
catfish. I would say the best
way to describe the food is
"Texanized" Cajun.
The fact that the food already
came in a box made it easier for
me to take my leftovers home.
Not only is TC's good, it's also
quite filling. Unfortunately, I
didn't get a chance to try the
pie. Small places like TC's gener-
ally have good pie.
TC said he got his recipes
from his grandmother in
Longview but later expanded
on them to make them better.
TC is known for his tartar sauce,
which he makes using an orig-
inal recipe that ends up pink,
unlike typical mayonnaise-
based sauce. The tartar sauce
is so popular, people will buy
it by itself.
Calvin Clark, a frequent
customer, walked into the
restaurant knowing exactly what
he wanted.
"It's all catfish, it's all good!"
Clark proclaimed. Clark and TC
joked around for a bit before
Clark settled down with his fish.
It reminded me of the theme
song from "Cheers" - everybody
Potential pyramid ound in Bosnia
VISOKO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) - With eyes trained to recog-
nize pyramids hidden in the
hills of El Salvador, Mexico and
Peru, Semir Osmanagic has been
drawn to the mound overlooking
this central Bosnian town.
"It has all the elements: four
perfectly shaped slopes pointing
toward the cardinal points, a flat
top and an entrance complex,"
he said, gazing at the hill and
wondering what lies beneath.
No pyramids are known in
Europe, and there is no evidence
any ancient civilization there
ever attempted to build one.
But Osmanagic, a Bosnian
archaeologist who has spent the
last 15 years studying the pyra-
mids of Latin America, suspects
there is one here in his Balkan
homeland.
"We have already dug out
stone blocks which I believe are
covering the pyramid," he said.
"We found a paved entrance
plateau and discovered under-
ground tunnels. You don't have
to be an expert to realize what
this is."
Osmanagic, 45, who now
lives in Houston, is personally
financing excavations at the
Visocica hill, a 2,120-foot hump
outside Visoko, a town about 20
miles northwest of the capital,
Sarajevo.
He learned about the hill
in April from Senad Hodovic,
director of a museum devoted
to the history of Visoko, which is
rich in Bronze Age and medieval
artifacts. Hodovic had attended
a promotion of an Osmanagic
book about ancient civilizations
and thought he would like to see
Visoko's pyramid-shaped hill.
When the pair climbed the
hill, the sweeping view revealed
a second, smaller pyramid-
shaped hill. It reminded
Osmanagic of pairs of pyramids
he has seen in Latin America
that together create a gateway
into a valley.
After obtaining a permit
to research the site, which
is protected by the state as a
national monument, the first
probes of the main hill were
carried out this summer at six
points. Nadja Nukic, a geolo-
gist involved in the research,
said she found 15 anomalies
suggesting that some layers of
the hill were manmade.
"We found layers of what we
call 'bad concrete,' a definitely
unnatural mixture of gravel
once used to form blocks with
which this hill was covered,"
Osmanagic said.
"The hill was already there,"
he added. "Some ancient civili-
zation just shaped it and then
coated it with this primitive
concrete - and there you have
a pyramid."
Small-scale excavations
continued until early November,
when winter set in, with the work
focusing on what Osmanagic
theorizes may have been the
entrance to a pyramid-shaped
temple.
Osmanagic believes the hill
was shaped by the Illyrian
people, who inhabited the
Balkan peninsula long before
Slavic tribes conquered it
around A.D. 600. Little is
known about the Illyrians, but
Osmanagic thinks they were
more sophisticated than many
experts have suggested.
Nukic, who has walked up and
down the hill several times, said
she noticed symmetrical plat-
forms in the slopes - indentations
that Osmanagic believes are steps
built into the pyramid.
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Catfish lovers can enjoy authentic catfish and other dishes at TC's Catfish, located at 1607 E.
McKinney St.
knows your name.
Personally, I'm partial to small
places. Only five people work at
TC's, and the atmosphere just
seems more personable than
at Long John Silver's or other
seafood places. Larger restau-
rants may impress with their size
and food and paid friendliness,
but there's a certain genuineness
TC's offers that is difficult to find
in other food establishments.
I told Mat we should definitely
return during Lent.
TC's Catfish is open from 11
a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through
Thursday, from 11 a.m. to 11
p.m. Friday and from 11 a.m.
to 10 p.m. Saturday. TC's also
offers takeout options and can
be reached at (940) 891-3663.
"Berenstain Bears writer dies at 82
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Stan Berenstain, who with his
wife wrote and illustrated the
Berenstain Bear books that
helped millions of children cope
with trips to the dentist, the first
day of school and getting new
siblings, has died.
Berenstain, 82, died Saturday
in suburban Philadelphia from
complications with cancer, said
Kate Jackson of HarperCollins
Children's Books in New York.
In more than 200 books over
40 years, the couple helped set
the standard for children's liter-
ature.
"Everybody feels like it was the
end of an era," said Jackson, one
of Berenstain's editors, adding
that the publisher plans to
continue the series. "The things
that they wrote about verymuch
came from their family experi-
ence and their heart."
The series showed children -
and parents - how to deal with
a long list of childhood chal-
lenges, from watching less TV
to not succumbing to the "in-
crowd." In the 1980s, the bear
family moved onto lessons
about the environment and
teenage drug use.
"I think he just wanted a
society in which people under-
stood each other, were helpful
to each other and so on," said
James Farley, a friend of the
Berenstains who co-owns
Farley's Book Shop in New
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