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Meat Fight 2017
Meat Fight tickets go on sale TODAY at 10:00am Central are on sale NOW. Get them here. The event will be held Sunday, November 12th at the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas. If you want to be there, be...
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Boldly Smoky Brisket and Juicy Pulled Pork at Smoke Sessions Barbecue
Last year, Chad and Jessica Sessions bought a flat-bed trailer and a barbecue pit in the hopes of making their mark in the barbecue business. They spent a year welding and hammering the body of a food...
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West Tennessee Whole Hog
Whole hog cooking used to be a way of life for small communities between Memphis and Nashville. These days, North and South Carolina are better known for this particular barbecue art form, but sizzling...
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See the Beautiful, Campy Posters of Meat Fight
Meat Fight—a barbecue competition between chefs that raises money for multiple sclerosis research—is approaching its eighth year in Dallas. Ticket sales for the November 12 event have been brisk,...
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BBQ News: 09/29 – 10/12
Gaze at these beautiful Southeast Texas links: The Ambassadors of Smoke article from The Christian Science Monitor touches on barbecue competitions, history, rebellions, and homogenization. There’s...
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Turkey Leg Season at Smokey John’s
Brent Reaves was on his way to catch the start of the dinner rush at Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que when he received some bad news: A fire had started in the pit room. His brother and co-owner, Juan Reaves,...
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How Pioneering Pitmaster Etta Randall Conquered a Lawless Boomtown With Barbecue
This story originally appeared in the November 2017 issue with the headline “A Pioneering Pitmaster.” The dusty patch of land that would become Borger, Texas, wasn’t much more than a raucous...
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Berry Best BBQ
Rarely does a beloved bean recipe spur the birth of a barbecue operation. When John Berry’s church asked him to cater a Super Bowl party in 2016, he served barbecue just like he’d regularly made for...
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BBQ News: 10/13 – 10/26
Texas Governor Greg Abbott bet Texas beer and barbecue against the California wines of Governor Jerry Brown on the World Series. The series is currently tied 1-1. Southern Smoke did a lot of good for...
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Interview: Punarbassi Sandy of Jaws Bar-B-Que
Owner/Pitmaster: Jaws Bar-B-Que; opened 1985 Age: 74 Smoker: Indirect heat wood-fired pit Wood: Oak Port Arthur was flooded for days after Hurricane Harvey. Recovery has been slow, but the pace is...
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Aaron Franklin and Tyson Cole Join Forces at Loro
An Austin culinary dream team has been born. Restaurant group Hai Hospitality announced last week that Aaron Franklin will be partnering with chef Tyson Cole on the upcoming restaurant Loro. I reported...
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Texas Ranch BBQ in Austin
The brisket at Texas Ranch BBQ would be headline-worthy if it was served in Temple, but a half-dozen other barbecue joints in Austin provide smoked meats of this quality. Yes, the barbecue is superb,...
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BBQ News: 10/27 – 11/09
The eighth annual Texas Monthly Barbecue Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and Eater Austin shared a recap of the smoked meats and the vegan protestors. Here’s a look at all the barbecue variety at the...
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A Texas Pitmaster Makes Forbes’s 30 Under 30 List
Barbecue hasn’t been well-represented on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list since it launched in 2011. In fact, Grant Pinkerton, of Houston’s Pinkerton’s Barbecue, was told that he was the first pitmaster...
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Ferris Wheelers Backyard & BBQ
Doug Pickering had to flip a few burgers before he finally got his own barbecue joint, but he probably never thought he’d be have a literal carnival ride in its backyard. You’ll probably see the Ferris...
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Automated Beef Grading Hits a Snag, Causing a Dip in Prime Grade Beef Supply
If you enjoy eating or smoking Prime grade beef, prepare for a dip in the national supply. A new carcass camera-grading technology, likely due to inaccuracy, provided elevated marbling scores to USDA...
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BBQ News: 11/10 – 11/22
If you’re in need of a free meal this Thanksgiving in Dallas, Slow Bone’s annual Free Bird meal starts at noon on Thanksgiving Day. Smoked meats in NYC must be hot. The Houston Chronicle and Austin...
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Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies—A History of Fat Men’s Clubs in Texas
“Reckhart is Fasting” read the headline of a 1902 El Paso Daily Times. Reckhart, apparently, was “eating only one 15-cent meal a day” so that he could gorge himself at an upcoming party. And not just...
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Barbecue and Sushi Meet at Q-Shi
Not since ice cream and pickles have two more disparate culinary offerings come together than at Q-Shi BBQ & Sushi in Spring. Sushi chef Ceu Hrang commands the raw fish you see at the counter, and...
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Belgium’s Take on Texas Barbecue
My family and I went to Belgium looking for waffles, chocolate, and beer—and we found plenty. But, as they’ve come to expect when traveling with me, we also found barbecue. And as I’ve come to expect...
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