Jorge "Choche" Flores II brings his winning ribs, brisket, and chicken to a new permanent location where his whole family works.
The 48th annual event in Brady rekindled both treasured and painful memories for a writer who’s been attending since infancy.
These teens are the future of Texas barbecue, and they all landed in Llano to compete for scholarship money and recognition as the best young pitmasters in the state.
“It needs more dust,” I said. Tuffy Stone, whose Cool Smoke barbecue team is one of most prolific in the country, was about to close a styrofoam box full of pork shoulder that was bound for the judge’s table. Our team, most of which I’d first met the day prior, surrounded
“This is my crack habit right here.” That’s how Tom Bera of the Philly Blind Pig BBQ team describes competition barbecue in a new documentary, American Smoke. Bera’s comparison is not only a comment on how addictive the competitions are and the high of winning one, but he’s also
Two weeks ago I was bathed in hickory smoke in the middle of New York City. For two days the streets surrounding Madison Square Park in Manhattan were taken over by pitmasters who had been invited to cook at the annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party. Eighteen barbecue joints from
