
John Mueller, Barbecue Legend, Dies at 52
"The dark prince of barbecue," who always found a new audience to wow with his smoked beef, changed the Texas scene for good.
"The dark prince of barbecue," who always found a new audience to wow with his smoked beef, changed the Texas scene for good.
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John Mueller was the heir to one of the great Texas barbecue dynasties. Aaron Franklin was an unknown kid from College Station who worked his counter. John had it all and then threw it all away. Aaron came out of nowhere to create the state’s most coveted brisket. Then John
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Cooper’s Pit Bar-B-Q MasonThe name “Cooper’s” has long been synonymous with Llano, but now the Mason operation of the same name has overtaken its distant cousin. Cooper’s Pit Bar-B-Q was opened in Mason in 1953 by the late George Cooper, whose son Tommy (also deceased) cloned it a decade later
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