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 ...

Instructions: Trim the fat from the shoulder clod as needed. Poke around the meat with your finger, and if you find hard pockets of fat, remove with a knife. If the fat is think or spongy, it’s OK to ...

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 ...