Nina Schmidt Sells, who grew up in the ’50s, remembers when brisket wasn’t the king cut of beef in Texas that it is today. Her father, Edgar “Smitty” Schmidt, was a longtime employee of the legendary ...

The conversation probably occurred sometime in the late 1960s, in a sweltering and smoky pit room attached to a former high school gymnasium, between two of the most famously stubborn men in Texas ...

Last year, I bought a whole beef carcass for the first time. I was helping with a barbecue event where the main attraction was the full steer cooked over wood in a pit built with concrete blocks. The ...

Over the past two years, Texas barbecue joints have continued to evolve and innovate in response to changing market conditions. For example, pitmasters have experimented with different cuts of beef to ...