Texas Cioppino
Chef Maurizio Ferrarese of Quattro Restaurant in the Houston Four Seasons hotel and I collaborated on a Texas cioppino last Friday. Maurizio invited me to join him in the kitchen …
Texas BBQ Pork: The Brown Pig
The “Brown Beef” (top), “Brown Pig” (center) and “Little Pig Ham” (bottom) are the three most popular sandwiches at Neely’s Sandwich Shop on East Grand Avenue in Marshall, Texas. The …
NYT on El Real
Restaurant Report: El Real Tex Mex in Houston By CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Published newyorktimes.com: September 2, 2011 In the darkness of the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, the blaring neon Art …
2012 Foodways Texas BBQ Summer Camp
Foodways Texas announces BBQ Summer Camp dates and details: From Foodways Texas: “Mark your calendars for June 8-10, 2012, for the Foodways Texas Barbecue Summer Camp held in partnership with …
Eating the Heat: The 21st Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
What a year it was at the hot sauce contest–the temperature was 111°F at 5 pm, just 1 degree short of Austin’s all time record high of 112! And still …
BBQ Road Trip: Going Whole Hog
After defeating South Carolina in a barbecue contest held in Washington DC back in the 1980s, Skylight Inn declared that tiny Ayden NC was the Barbecue Capital of the World.
BBQ Road Trip: Pits of the Piedmont
The array of chimneys sticking out of the brick cookhouse wall at Lexington Barbecue in Lexington North Carolina are very impressive.
Zen BBQ
Last Sunday Chris Shepherd and I lead our World BBQ Tour for the GHCVB. Last Monday I taught a BBQ class at my house with guest instructor and veteran cook-off …
Barbecue in Black and White
“The heavily-sauced, chopped East Texas barbecue is a reflection of the fact that it was originally a Negro phenomenon, an ingenious method for rendering palatable the poorer, less-desirable cuts of …
The Barefoot Heathen Anthem
Be the first to spot the anachronism in Rodney’s Crowell’s Telephone Road video and win a Lone Star beer at El Real!