Fire & Smoke

Fire & Smoke

A Texas Monthly podcast highlighting the best barbecue in the world, hosted by barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn.

Episodes

New from Texas Monthly: America's Girls

December 6, 2021 • 3 mins
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 the global pop culture phenomenon, from the stripper who allegedly inspired the squad’s creation, to a scandalous Playboy cover shoot that was partly a battle over fair wages, to the ongoing debate about sex...
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La Barbecue is Feminizing Barbecue One Brisket at a Time

December 21, 2018 • 26 mins
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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The Resurgence of Bodacious Bar-B-Q

December 7, 2018 • 9 mins
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.
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Gobble Gobble

November 21, 2018 • 12 mins
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.
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BBQ Fest Preview with Miguel Vidal Talking Tex-Mex BBQ

November 2, 2018 • 33 mins
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.
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Plant-Based (Don't Call it Vegan) Brisket

October 29, 2018 • 9 mins
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.
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Mad Jack's: A Taste of Lockhart in New Mexico

October 5, 2018 • 10 mins
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.
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Johnny Walker Shares the Lessons of Momma Jean

September 14, 2018 • 11 mins
At Momma Jean's BBQ in Lampasas, owner and pitmaster Johnny Walker carries on his family's barbecue legacy.
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Did Lockhart Brisket Earn a Whooping?

August 29, 2018 • 34 mins
Austin American Statesman food critic, Matthew Odam, defends his recent article questioning the quality of the smoked brisket in Lockhart.
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Pioneering Pitmaster Etta Randall

July 20, 2018 • 10 mins
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.
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Tootsie Tomanetz, the Snow's Queen

May 25, 2018 • 10 mins
Barbecue editor and host Daniel Vaughn tells us the story of Tootsie Tomanetz, pitmaster at the famous Snow's BBQ in Lexington, Texas.
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