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April 9, 2015

BBQ News: 04/03 – 04/09

– The Houston Chronicle asks “Have we reached peak barbecue?”– Texas BBQ Treasure Hunt examines just how much we pay for bones when ordering ribs at a barbecue joint.– The Austin City Council passed a resolution to study smoke mitigation requirements for barbecue joints.–

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BBQ|
April 8, 2015

Interview: Robert Patillo of Patillo’s Bar-B-Q

Owner: Patillo’s Bar-B-Q; Opened 1912Age: 67Smoker: Indirect Heat Wood-Fired PitWood: Hickory, red oak, white oak, and pecanPatillo’s Bar-B-Q has been operating in Beaumont since 1912. It has moved around a lot in the past 100 years, but it’s always been in the family. That makes it the oldest family owned barbecue establishment in

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BBQ|
April 7, 2015

A Brisket Tour in Southeast Texas

Bad brisket is nothing new on the barbecue trail, but there are some days when you just can’t catch a break—or, as was the case for me recently, two consecutive days where I searched high and low for a good slice of smoked beef in Beaumont and Southeast Texas.It began in

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BBQ|
April 7, 2015

Little Miss BBQ

At 10:00am, the sun seemed nearly at full strength in the desert. One man had unfolded a chair and sat next to the door waiting for it to open. By the time it did, a line stretched at least forty deep, and the parking lot was so full that some

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BBQ|
April 3, 2015

BBQ Books: Spring 2015

The spring of 2015 looks to be bullish on barbecue books. A new one seems to show up in the mailbox every week, and I’ve finally gotten the time to thumb through them. This is by no means a complete list of the barbecue books hitting the shelf this year,

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BBQ|
April 2, 2015

BBQ News: 03/27 – 04/02

– The Austin City Council will discuss the new barbecue smoke resolution in today’s council meeting.– The resolution has been revised from its original version that Aaron Franklin spoke out against on Monday.– The Austin American Statesman covered the resolution as well with comments

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Politics & Policy|
April 1, 2015

DPS Makes a Border Bust

The Texas Department of Public Safety has faced questions about whether the border surge made the rest of the state less secure and whether it is taking credit for other law enforcement agencies actions, but now the DPS has announced a major border bust all of its own.

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BBQ|
April 1, 2015

Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto

Aaron Franklin is giving us the keys to his barbecue kingdom. Some of his meat smoking secrets have already been leaked via his YouTube series BBQ With Franklin, and more is to come with a new PBS series of the same name, but his upcoming book

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