This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. It may not be the best of times, but it is the time of bests. Four years ago this month I chronicled the Best of Texas—150 of the best people, places, things, and Mexican food these 169 million acres have to offer. But being best is very hard. That’s why we have the word in the first place, instead of the less precise “goodest.”So I went out anew to see what, aside from the price of oil and the governor’s political party, has changed across Texas in the last four years. In my search…The post The Best Strikes Back appeared first on Texas Monthly.