How LeAnn Mueller and Ali Clem - the only wife-and-wife team in Texas - finally brought Austin's la Barbecue indoors, and why Los Angeles doesn't know what it's missing.

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La Barbecue is Feminizing Barbecue One Brisket at a Time

The East Texas chain of Bodacious Bar-B-Q joints lost its founder, Roland Lindsey, in September. His son-in-law Jordan Jackson looks to not only carry on the brand's barbecue legacy, but improve it one location at a time.

The Resurgence of Bodacious Bar-B-Q

Sam Greenberg's family has been smoking turkeys the old-fashioned way since 1939 in Tyler, Texas, and he sees no reason to change things at Greenberg Smoked Turkeys.

Gobble Gobble

Miguel Vidal of Valentina's Tex-Mex BBQ in Austin provides a preview of his dish at the Texas Monthly BBQ Fest, and we discuss how his San Antonio upbringing informs his current Tex-Mex BBQ menu.

BBQ Fest Preview with Miguel Vidal Talking Tex-Mex BBQ

At Houston's Rice University, there's a little less meat in the dining halls because the chefs have embraced plant-based meat substitutes, including their own version of vegan barbecue brisket.

Plant-Based (Don't Call it Vegan) Brisket

Tired of used cars and small town bureaucracy, James Jackson closed his food truck in the barbecue capital of Texas and took his barbecue out of state.

Mad Jack's: A Taste of Lockhart in New Mexico

At Momma Jean's BBQ in Lampasas, owner and pitmaster Johnny Walker carries on his family's barbecue legacy.

Johnny Walker Shares the Lessons of Momma Jean

Austin American Statesman food critic, Matthew Odam, defends his recent article questioning the quality of the smoked brisket in Lockhart.

Did Lockhart Brisket Earn a Whooping?

In 1926 Etta Randall, a young black woman from deep East Texas, set off for a lawless boomtown in the Panhandle, where she found unexpected success not in the oil fields but in an old concrete pit.

Pioneering Pitmaster Etta Randall

Barbecue editor and host Daniel Vaughn tells us the story of Tootsie Tomanetz, pitmaster at the famous Snow's BBQ in Lexington, Texas.

Tootsie Tomanetz, the Snow's Queen

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