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BBQ News: 11/23 – 12/07
When BBQ becomes a legitimate campaign issue in Texas: Out of the gate, @TreyBlocker with a strong argument: Why is @MillerForTexas at war with Texas Barbecue? #txlege pic.twitter.com/SvewzBpmln —...
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Tender Smokehouse
When it comes to barbecue, Dante Ramirez has been around. He recently consulted on barbecue projects in Italy and France. In Texas, he has worked for Red Hot & Blue and directed catering for Bone...
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Barbecue and Chili Come Together in an Easy Recipe
Chili is the official state food of Texas. We argued a few years back that (no surprise) brisket might have a stronger case. A Dallas news station recently took a road trip to verify whether the Texas...
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Tri Tip Grill
Jerry Jones,and the city of Frisco will have spent $1.5 billion on The Star, the 91-acre development that serves as the training facility and headquarters for the Dallas Cowboys, by the time it’s...
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With a Battle Over Barbecue, the Ag Commissioner’s Race is Officially a Food...
“Barbecue might be America’s most political food,” wrote the New Yorker earlier this year. The claim certainly applies to the 2018 race for Texas Agriculture Commissioner. Instead of farming or...
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The Best Wurst Christmas Tree Ever
This time of year can get a little too sweet, with pies, fruitcakes, and plates piled high with cookies crowding the tables at most parties. What the holidays need more of is meat, and I’m not talking...
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BBQ News: 12/08 – 12/21
A food fight puts BBQ in the Texas political spotlight: A barbecue town hall was held at Texas A&M last week. Among other things, there was a discussion about the university’s recent research on...
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Mum Foods Pastrami
Getting to the next great Texas barbecue dish as quickly as possible is always a goal in my job. But, when it comes to pastrami, it has taken me five years to find the best in the state. My favorite...
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BBQ News: 12/22 – 01/04
Hill Country BBQ in DC and NYC is importing a few great TX sausages: It’s a Texas-Sized Sausage Takeover at Hill Country! For the month of Jan only, we’ll be serving up links from some of Texas’ best...
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Best Texas BBQ Bites of 2017
It was a big year for barbecue at Texas Monthly. We released a new Top 50 barbecue list, and we welcomed 30 of those highly regarded joints to our eighth annual barbecue festival in November. In...
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EastSide Tavern’s Tater Tots
Tater tots are potato sausages without a casing. I came to this realization while at EastSide Tavern in Austin. An appetizer called simply Brisket + Cheddar Tater Tots on the menu had just arrived....
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Black Board Bar-B-Q
Sisterdale is but a blip on the map halfway between Boerne and Luckenbach. I found it six years ago when I stopped in for an impressive meal at Maywald’s Sisterdale Smokehouse. John and Lori Maywald...
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BBQ News: 01/05 – 01/18
The Pappas family goes upscale with barbecue at Delta Blues Smokehouse: Crab and brisket cakes star in this week’s @alisoncook review https://t.co/gFaTnVFERv via @HoustonChron — Jody Schmal...
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Nelson’s BBQ
Nathaniel Nelson needs more space. A steel smoker hogs up valuable square footage inside the tiny food truck, leaving little room to prepare orders. The truck sits beside a tattoo shop along the 1604...
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Salt Lick Co-Founder Hisako Roberts Dies at Age 104
Hisako Roberts, age 104, passed away peacefully Thursday night. She founded the Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood with her husband, Thurman, in 1967 on land the Roberts family settled in the 1870s. It was...
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Salt Lick Co-Founder Hisako Roberts Dies at Age 104
Hisako Roberts, age 104, passed away peacefully Thursday night. She founded the Salt Lick BBQ in Driftwood with her husband, Thurman, in 1967 on land the Roberts family settled in the 1870s. It was...
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Don’t Have a Cow Over Pricey Prime-Grade Brisket
Texas meat markets once filled their smokers with the beef nobody wanted. The least desirable cuts, the literal leftovers, were rescued from the trash heap and found new life as barbecue. But over the...
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Big Cat BBQ
Five years ago, James Jones didn’t know if he would walk again. A freak injury from lifting a generator out of his truck damaged his spinal cord. What seemed like an annoying pain at first turned to...
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BBQ News: 01/05 – 01/18
The Pappas family goes upscale with barbecue at Delta Blues Smokehouse: Crab and brisket cakes star in this week’s @alisoncook review https://t.co/gFaTnVFERv via @HoustonChron — Jody Schmal...
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Koko Ramen
Cade Mercer is a ramen novice, and he knows it. He made his first batch of ramen broth four weeks ago and then promptly threw it out, as well as the next one. They were both tonkotsu broth made with...
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