Houstonia Magazine and D&T Drive-in are holding a Community BBQ and Dewberry Blackberry Cobbler Contest Saturday May 4 from 4pm to 8pm. D&T Drive-In is an old icehouse at 1307 Enid near Calvalcade and I-45. The cool old/new watering hole has been renovated by Chris Cusack and his Down House…
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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…
A review of Barbecue Crossroads in this week’s Austin Chronicle: Robb Walsh seeks enlightenment on his own BBQ spirit quest By Kenny Pailes, 9:45AM, Thu. Apr. 4 Barbecue Crossroads: Notes & Recipes From A Southern Odyssey cover photo by O. Rufus Lovett Robb Walsh, photographs by O. Rufus Lovett University…
“Once you start to see the connection between African American barbecue and religion, it pops up everywhere. When I attended services at Reverend Hodge’s church one Sunday, I met a guest preacher named Reverend Jimmie Cobbin. After I asked him if he ever cooked barbecue, he smiled and said, ‘Funny…
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…
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…
3rd Annual Foodways Texas Symposium Save the date: April 4-6, 2013 Our Barbecue, Ourselves, the 3rd Annual Foodways Texas symposium will explore the past, present, and potential of smoked meat in Texas and its intimate connections to Texas cultural history and identity. As we feast on plates from around the…
Houston Barbecue Festival Sunday 24 March 2013 from 1pm-5pm at the Bayou City Event Center–Participating Houston barbecue joints: • Blake’s BBQ • The Brisket House • Brooks’ Place BBQ • Burns BBQ • CorkScrew BBQ • Fainmous BBQ • Gary Burns Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Q • Gatlin’s BBQ •Gerardo’s •…
