Fire & Smoke

Fire & Smoke episodes:

• 12.06.2021

  New from Texas Monthly: America's Girls

  The original Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad burst onto the field back in 1972—the same year Title IX passed, the same year Deep Throat came out, and a year before Roe v. Wade. Sarah Hepola digs into the untold stories behind...

  
• 12.21.2018

  La Barbecue is Feminizing Barbecue One Brisket at a Time

  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.

  
• 12.07.2018

  The Resurgence of Bodacious Bar-B-Q

  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.

  
• 11.21.2018

  Gobble Gobble

  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.

  
• 11.02.2018

  BBQ Fest Preview with Miguel Vidal Talking Tex-Mex BBQ

  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.

  
• 10.29.2018

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

  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.

  
• 10.05.2018

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

  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.

  
• 09.14.2018

  Johnny Walker Shares the Lessons of Momma Jean

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

  
• 08.29.2018

  Did Lockhart Brisket Earn a Whooping?

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

  
• 07.20.2018

  Pioneering Pitmaster Etta Randall

  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.

  
• 05.25.2018

  Tootsie Tomanetz, the Snow's Queen

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