Pizzitola’s Bar-B-Cue has gone through many transformations in its 87-year history in Houston. The original location was bulldozed to make way for Interstate 10. A name change came along with new ...

This article is about how I built my vertical brick BBQ smoker. It wasn’t very difficult to do, it cost me only about $200, and it works quite well as a medium-large-capacity BBQ (does 50–75 pounds of ...

If you were an aspiring barbecue pitmaster 60 years ago, you had one choice of barbecue pit. You hand-built a rectangular brick pit with an "offset" firebox on one end and a smokestack on the other, ...

I stood next to a steel smoker outside a small barbecue joint several years back while watching a pitmaster retrieve the meats I’d just ordered. He opened a door on a smoking cabinet to fetch the ...

The Brick Pit, a small west Mobile barbecue joint whose cuisine was beloved by many, is getting new lease on life. New owners are renovating the building on Old Shell Road, a stone's throw from the ...

For those of us who visit multiple barbecue joints every week, there are a few clues about the quality of the barbecue we look and sniff for even before we walk in the door. First, do you see and ...