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Listen: Ray’s BBQ Shack writes a new chapter of Third Ward barbecue traditions
Listen: Ray’s BBQ Shack writes a new chapter of Third Ward barbecue traditions
By Greg Morago
The website for Ray's BBQ Shack gets straight to the point: "New Location, Same Smoke." It's a perfect expression for the big news from one of Houston's great smokehouses: Ray's has moved from its ...
Listen: Sausage-making -- Behind the scenes at the Houston Barbecue Festival
More than 2,300 people attended this year's Houston Barbecue Festival , tucking into smoked meats from 27 vendors. It's quite a smoky to-do -- and certainly no easy task to pull off. Chronicle barbecue ...
Listen: The evolution of CorkScrew BBQ in Spring
He was a telephone lineman. She was a homemaker. But Will and Nichole Buckman shared a passion for cooking and an appreciation for barbecue. Summoning their collective courage and using their savings, ...
Listen: Barbecue joins baseball at Houston's Minute Maid Park
Baseball fans cannot live by hot dogs alone. And the new Houston Astros season at Minute Maid Park arrives with options beyond the familiar peanuts and Cracker Jack routine. Jackson Street BBQ , the ...
Listen: Greg Gatlin talks jet set barbecue
The Gatlin family of Gatlin's BBQ in Houston has taken a big step in expanding its barbecue brand. "Q" is the name of an impressive new barbecue restaurant in Terminal E of George Bush International ...
Restaurants & Bars
Listen: Jess Timmons of Caboose BBQ in Alvin
While Texas barbecue continues to swell in popularity, there are still precious few female pitmasters, even as women are becoming more recognized in barbecue operations. Jess Timmons is an anomaly. A ...
Listen: Jim Buchanan of Buck's Barbecue
Jim Buchanan, the pitmaster/owner of Buck's Barbecue Co. was all about to officially lay down roots in the kitchen of Lucky's Pub on Houston Avenue the day Hurricane Harvey started raining down on ...
Listen: Scott Moore of Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue
Most barbecue joints these days serve more than just the Texas Trinity of brisket, sausage and ribs. But Tejas Chocolate & Barbecue in Tomball goes well beyond the call of duty -- lately the restaurant ...
Listen: Promising new players in barbecue
Judging a barbecue competition isn't the picnic you might imagine it to be. But, for frequent judges Chronicle critic Alison Cook and food editor Greg Morago, it is often a great way to taste barbecue ...
Listen: 2017, the year of Houston barbecue
It was an outstanding year on the barbecue front, especially for Houston. And for the BBQ State of Mind podcast , which began its look at the Texas barbecue scene in spring 2017. In this week's episode, ...
Listen: The brave new world of pellet grills and how they’re...
They look like traditional wood-burning barrel smokers, but a new generation of pellet grills (they grill and smoke) is changing the way backyard barbecue enthusiasts approach the often laborious, ...
Restaurants & Bars
Listen: The brave new world of pellet grills and how they’re...
They look like traditional wood-burning barrel smokers, but a new generation of pellet grills (they grill and smoke) is changing the way backyard barbecue enthusiasts approach the often laborious, ...
Listen: Grant Pinkerton’s amazing year in barbecue
If further evidence is needed that the Houston barbecue scene is on mesquite-stoked fire, we present Grant Pinkerton 's case. The hotshot pitmaster/owner of Pinkerton's Barbecue was just named to the ...
Listen: How Pappas is rethinking barbecue
Pappas Bar-B-Q fans may not be able to see it, but hopefully they can taste the countless hours of research and development the brand has put into upping its barbecue game as it marks 50 years in ...
Listen: Beers with Aaron Franklin and Rodney Scott
One smokes the best Central Texas-style brisket on Planet Earth. The other is the country's foremost practitioner of whole hog barbecue. Both deal with fire, day through night. And, wouldn't you know it, ...
Listen: How iconic barbecue brand Goode Company got its start
Jim Goode was an avid backyard barbecue enthusiast before he got the chance in 1977 to be an honest-to-goodness pitmaster when he purchased the former Red Barn on Kirby. From those humble beginnings he ...
Listen: Making the leap from cook-off competitor to barbecue...
Wesley Jurena is one of today's quintessential Houston barbecue entrepreneurs. After working in the corporate world he got into smoking meat, competing on the cook-off circuit and eventually buying a ...
Listen: Sausage-making -- Behind the scenes at the Houston Barbecue Festival
More than 2,300 people attended this year's Houston Barbecue Festival , tucking into smoked meats from 27 vendors. It's quite a smoky to-do -- and certainly no easy task to pull off. Chronicle barbecue ...
Listen: The evolution of CorkScrew BBQ in Spring
He was a telephone lineman. She was a homemaker. But Will and Nichole Buckman shared a passion for cooking and an appreciation for barbecue. Summoning their collective courage and using their savings, ...
Listen: Barbecue joins baseball at Houston's Minute Maid Park
Baseball fans cannot live by hot dogs alone. And the new Houston Astros season at Minute Maid Park arrives with options beyond the familiar peanuts and Cracker Jack routine. Jackson Street BBQ , the ...
Listen: Greg Gatlin talks jet set barbecue
The Gatlin family of Gatlin's BBQ in Houston has taken a big step in expanding its barbecue brand. "Q" is the name of an impressive new barbecue restaurant in Terminal E of George Bush International ...
The Houston Chronicle is making a weekly barbecue run. Join barbecue columnist J.C. Reid, James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic Alison Cook and food editor Greg Morago as they discuss the culture of barbecue in Houston, across Texas and anywhere else where meat meets smoke. Please subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and give us a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts. It helps!
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Listen: Wayne Mueller of Louie Mueller Barbecue (Part 1 of 2)
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Listen: The history of Houston barbecue
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Listen: Breakfast at Killen's Barbecue with Ronnie Killen
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Listen: The Chronicle food team talks barbecue
