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Aaron Franklin’s first-ever brisket-smoking tutorial, posted on his BBQ with Franklin YouTube channel in 2012, has been viewed over four million times. In the video, Franklin gets the brisket in the smoker and closes the lid,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 19, 2021 | All, Barbecue, BBQ, Brisket, Feature, North Carolina, Texas BBQ | 0 |
I struck out on brisket at my first barbecue stop in North Carolina. It was on the menu, but the cashier said they weren’t able to cook it because the Skilsaw (a saw usually reserved for portioning bone-in meat) wasn’t...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 16, 2021 | All, Feature, Food, Where to Eat Now 2021 | 0 |
We lost some great Texas restaurants in the past year, whether to the pandemic or other causes. Here, as part of our Where to Eat Now package for 2021, we remember a few of the places we’ll dearly miss. Houston Big, slick...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 16, 2021 | All, Feature, Food, Libations, Where to Eat Now 2021 | 0 |
As part of the twentieth edition of our Where to Eat Now package, which looks at our favorite to-go dishes from restaurants that opened in 2020, we’ve paired it with a look at a few great new offerings (or in one case, a wider...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 16, 2021 | All, best new restaurants, Feature, Food, Where to Eat Now 2021 | 0 |
Almost a year ago at this time, I was panicking about the future of restaurants in Texas. The pandemic was carving a path of economic destruction that would lead to the demise of more than 10,000 of the state’s dining...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 5, 2021 | All, BBQ, Bludso's BBQ, Feature, Kevin Bludso | 0 |
The most recent barbecue cookbook by a Black author wasn’t published this century. Bobby Seale, a man far better known for cofounding the Black Panther Party than for his barbecue chops, released Barbecue’n with Bobby in 1988....
Read MoreWhen Lady & the Pit closed in Fort Worth in 2019, I lamented the loss of owner and pitmaster Natasha Smith’s fried pork chops, pineapple cream pie, and that smoked chicken salad. The rest of the barbecue was fine, but the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 16, 2021 | All, BBQ, Feature | 0 |
Many food vendors suffered severe financial setbacks when the State Fair of Texas was canceled last year. One of them was Yoakum Packing Company, which produces the item that has become the symbol for this sort of festival...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 14, 2021 | All, BBQ, Big Al's BBQ, Feature | 0 |
This year will mark twenty years that I’ve lived in Dallas, and I’ve been going to Big Al’s Smokehouse BBQ for most of them. My early visits were long before I became an official barbecue editor, and mostly happened on Tuesdays...
Read MoreDenison, about 75 miles north of Dallas, boasts the birthplace of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Lake Texoma Dam, and the world’s best bourbon (really) at Ironroot Republic Distillery. It’s also where a personal barbecue...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 31, 2020 | All, BBQ, Brisket, Feature, Senator John Cornyn | 0 |
A few days ago, I publicly sought out Senator John Cornyn’s brisket recipe—or, more accurately, that of his wife, Sandy Cornyn. “Don’t do this Daniel,” implored Twitter user @NTenney, who had seen Cornyn’s now infamous brisket...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Nov 28, 2020 | All, BBQ, Bodacious Bar-B-Q, Bryan Bingham, Feature, Jordan Jackson | 0 |
In early 2019, I caught up with Jordan Jackson, the pitmaster of Bodacious Bar-B-Q’s Longview location, which Texas Monthly had named as the state’s fourth best barbecue joint in our 2017 Top 50 list. Jackson, who told me he was...
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