Partner June Naylor is an award-winning travel journalist, dining critic, and food writer with more than 20 years of experience. A Fort Worth native and a sixth-generation Texan who was raised in Dallas and educated at Texas Christian University, June is a lifelong student of food, cooking and culture in Texas and the Southwest.

A child of food-loving parents, June began creating things in the kitchen before she learned long division, and she’s taken cooking classes from Dallas to Bangkok. Over the years, she’s interviewed food celebrities such as Wolfgang Puck, Jacques Pepin, and John Besh, hosted a food-and-travel radio show and taken friends on food trips at home and abroad.

June has written two cookbooks with Fort Worth cook and restaurateur Grady Spears and has another in the works with Austin/Fort Worth chef and restaurateur Louis Lambert.

Texas Toast partner Cynthia Wahl comes to Texas by way of Wisconsin (born there) and Colorado (schooled there).  After spending 20 years as art director for several publications at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, she decided to follow her epicurean passions.

Although art and design have been her vocation, an adulation of Texas food and wine was raised to a higher level when she became friends with June Naylor pretty much the first day she worked at the paper. Through numerous girlfriend trips around Texas and the nation, the two have eaten like royalty (insert a musical “Mmmmmm” here) while also taste-testing tequilas and emptying some nice bottles of wine.

Cynthia is married to Jeff Cunningham, a native Texan, and has two teenage sons who eat an awful lot.

Photography by Jill Johnson