BBQ
February 15, 2018
Snow’s Pitmaster Tootsie Tomanetz Reacts to Her James Beard Semifinalist Nod
For the third time in four years, the prestigious restaurant and chef awards recognize a pitmaster.
Kerry Bexley
BBQ Joint Reviews
June 1, 2017
Snow’s BBQ (Top 50)
It’s early morning and the air is not yet blistering, so you roll the car windows down. You turn off the highway onto a farm road and meander through pastures and farmland, anticipation growing with every mile. Thirty minutes later you arrive in the micropolis of Lexington (population 1,200) and…
BBQ
June 26, 2013
Interview: Tootsie Tomanetz of Snow’s BBQ
Pitmaster: Snow’s BBQ; opened in 2003. Age: 78 Smoker: A steel smoker with an offset firebox for briskets, a direct heat pit for everything else. Wood: Post Oak Tootsie took her lunch break to talk with me while working her day job with the Giddings school district. After Texas Monthly named Snow’s BBQ…
BBQ Joint Reviews
May 17, 2013
Snow’s BBQ
For some in the small town of Lexington (population roughly 1,200), Saturdays are as holy as Sundays. It’s hard to miss these devotees. They congregate at the end of Main Street, within view of some grain elevators dressed in a gingham rust—a line of farmhands, ranchers, well-off weekenders, and groggy…