– Gotta try those juicy links in Port Arthur:

 

– The Fort Worth Food & Wine Festival will host Black’s BBQ and Kreuz Market from Lockhart later this month.

– Heim BBQ in Fort Worth is still planning a second location, but the plans have changed on the address.

– Cross Timbers Gazette has high praise for the new 407 BBQ north of Fort Worth.

– Smokey Joe’s BBQ in Dallas is temporarily closed for repairs.

– Steel brands stolen from the pit house at Two Bros. BBQ have been recovered:

 

– The team from Freedmen’s in Austin showed KEYE how they construct their barbecue Bloody Mary.

– The Austin Food & Wine Alliance’s Live Fire event is bringing together some barbecue heavy hitters on April 6th.

– Insider Food features La Barbecue in Austin in a new video highlighting their barbecue which is worth waiting for.

– The LeRoy & Lewis barbecue trailer made its debut in Austin this past week.

– There’s great BBQ in NYC, but slow your roll on the “barbecue capital” designation, Eater:

 

– Besides, the NYT is sending their food critic to Texas for barbecue:

 

– The Tyler Morning Telegraph disagreed with Eater. “In the dystopic New York of Eater magazine, barbecue is a trend. In Texas, it’s a faith.”

– Soylent, the company that specializes in liquid meal replacements, has created a barbecue sauce.

– Brazil is in the midst of a tainted meat scandal which involves the world’s largest beef company.

– More Texas-style barbecue in Paris:

 

– NPR hung out with the line standers at Franklin Barbecue in Austin during SXSW.

– KUT spent some time at the Texas Sausage Company in Austin. They spoke with owner Gary Tharp whose family has been making sausage for 70 years.

– Armed robbers held up a Pappas Bar-B-Q in Houston. The trio was caught before leaving the parking lot.

– Stephen Naron provides this recap of a barbecue trip through Houston (and Lexington and Brenham).

– Meet a Tennessee whole hog barbecue family:

 

– Nobody wants to fight grease and sweat like we do.” – Gerri Grady of Grady’s BBQ in Dudley, North Carolina.

– John Lewis of Charleston’s Lewis Barbecue was featured on CBS This Morning.

– Great name. Creepy logo: