Rene “Ray” Ramirez took his first trip to Texas just three years ago. From the menu and the décor in his Huntington Park barbecue joint, just outside Los Angeles, you’d think he was a Texpat. He gushes about Texas so passionately that you’d never guess he was California born, and has been in the same house just down the street from his restaurant for nearly thirty years. He told me on a recent visit that he aims to “give the people who never get to go to Texas the experience of what I feel when I go over there.” It started in the backyard of his house in January of 2014. Ramirez operated “underground,” serving barbecue illegally as a side gig from his weekday bank…View Original PostThe post Texas-Style Brisket and Otherworldly Pulled Pork in … Huntington Park, California appeared first on Texas Monthly.