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BBQ Season

Tomorrow is Father’s Day–and I will be celebrating as usual at the Annual Millheim Father’s Day Barbecue. Come eat some barbecued beef, pork and mutton and gamble for cakes at the cake walk. Millheim Harmonie Verein’s Annual Father’s Day Barbecue Father’s Day Millheim Harmonie Verein’s Dance Hall 3384 FM 949…
Some Like it Hot
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Dallas Morning News Review: Barbecue Crossroads
Thanks to Eve Hill-Agnus and the Dallas Morning News for the wonderful review of Barbecue Crossroads: By EVE HILL-AGNUS Special Contributor food@dallasnews.com Barbecue Crossroads is an odyssey — not merely in miles logged from Texas to the Carolinas while documenting the disappearing art of old-fashioned, wood-fire barbecue. It’s a journey…
Community Barbecue this Saturday in Galveston

Book Release Update:
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UPDATE: Barbecue in Black and White
At the Foodways Texas BBQ Symposium recently, I gave a talk about the clash between the plantation barbecue culture and the German immigrant barbecue culture in North Carolina and Texas and the traces of old animosities and racism that surface in discussions about barbecue sauce. I read the quote from…
Congrats BBQ Snob!

Our friend Daniel Vaughn (@BBQsnob) has been named Barbecue Editor of Texas Monthly Magazine; his first day of work is April 15. (We expect Franklin’s brisket tallow to be smeared on his forehead in the “sign of the Q” at the anointment ceremony.) The announcement caused quite a stir as…
UPDATE: Barbecue Crossroads

100 advance copies of Barbecue Crossroads will be sold by Foodways Texas at the Barbecue Symposium April 4-6 as a fund-raiser for the organization. In stories, recipes, and photographs James Beard Award-winning writer Robb Walsh and acclaimed documentary photographer O. Rufus Lovett take us on a barbecue odyssey from East…
Join Us for Camp Brisket

Foodways Texas and Texas A&M Meat Science Center present: Camp Brisket 2013 Camp Brisket January 11-12, 2013 College Station, Texas We’re trying something new this year in partnership with the Meat Science Section in the Department of Animal Science at Texas A&M University. We will hold a second barbecue camp,…