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Friday Find: BBQ Tourist joins Kevin’s BBQ Joints to discuss his recent Texas trip

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Monk: Friend of the blog and co-founder of The Smoke Sheet Ryan Cooper (aka BBQ Tourist) chats with Kevin in this podcast about his recent Texas trip to Austin for Robert Jacob Lerma’s huge barbecue party and then his exploration of the Fort Worth barbecue scene.

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In this special episode I chat with Ryan Cooper(@BBQTourist: https://www.instagram.com/bbqtourist) who by day works for the National Park Service, but by night(and off hours) is co-founder of The Smoke Sheet(https://www.bbqnewsletter.com) and travels the country searching out incredible barbecue. We talk about his recent 10 day trip to Texas (from Nebraska where he lives) where he visited 20 BBQ joints and went to what is possibly the best BBQ party of the year (Robert Jacob Lerma’s Summer BBQ Bash).

The journey begins when he picks up Chris Bengston from Common Descent Provisions (https://www.commondescentprovisions.com) and ends with a through visit to all of the latest BBQ spots opening in Fort Worth and Arlington. For reference, here’s a list of his stops:
1. Boss Hog’s BBQ and Bail Bonds: https://bit.ly/2lfUWMh
2. Brothertons Black Iron BBQ: https://www.facebook.com/PFTXBBQ/
3. Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ: https://www.valentinastexmexbbq.com/
4. Interstellar: https://www.facebook.com/Interstellarbbq
5. The Switch: https://www.theswitchdripping.com
6. Smitty’s Market: http://smittysmarket.com
7. Kreuz Market: https://kreuzmarket.com
8. City Market Luling: http://www.lulingcitymarket.com
9. Brett’s Backyard Bar-B-Que: https://www.brettsbackyardbarbque.com
10. Louie Mueller BBQ: https://www.louiemuellerbarbecue.com
11.Banger’s Sausage House and Beer Garden: https://www.bangersaustin.com
12. Panther City BBQ: http://www.panthercitybbq.com
13. Flores Barbecue: https://www.facebook.com/FloresBarbecue
14. Smoke-A-Holics BBQ: https://www.smoke-a-holicsbbq.com
15. Derek Allan’s Texas BBQ: https://derekallansbbq.com
16. Hurtado Barbecue: http://hurtadobbq.com
17. Zavala’s Barbecue: http://www.zavalasbarbecue.com
18. Lillian’s Barbecue: https://www.facebook.com/lilliansbbq
19. Dayne’s Craft Barbecue: https://daynescraftbarbecue.com
20. Goldee’s Barbecue: https://www.facebook.com/goldeesbbq/

Friday Find: Why Hometown Bar-B-Que Is The Most Legendary Barbecue Restaurant In NYC

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I hadn’t realized that Louie Mueller in Taylor, TX was the main reason why Billy Durney left his job as a personal bodyguard for celebrities to start Hometown Bar-B-Que to be the head “fire tender” (he thinks the term “pitmaster” is ridiculous). Food Insider tries most of the meats from “the best barbecue in New York” in this video.

Description: Hometown Bar-B-Que is arguably the most famous barbecue restaurant in New York City. Customers from all over the world flock to this restaurant and can wait up to two hours to try the food. INSIDER’s Herrine Ro and Sydney Kramer visit the restaurant and learn about Billy Durney’s story about how he fell in love with his craft and what makes his barbecue unique.

Friday Find: Frank Scibelli on Order/Fire

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Frank Scibelli is the restaurateur behind Midwood Smokehouse, which I would argue brought back “True Cue” barbecue to Charlotte when it opened in 2012. That is, barbecue smoked over wood with no gas or electric assistance. Midwood has grown from it’s Central Avenue location to a small regional chain with 3 locations in Charlotte, another in Huntersville, and one in Columbia, SC.

In this episode of the Charlotte-based web series Order/Fire, host Marc Jacksina sits down with Frank to discuss his restaurant history in Charlotte. It’s not exclusively about barbecue and Midwood, but it’s a worthy view nonetheless. The barbecue-specific section starts at 13:38 and lasts until 16:45.

Friday Find: Texas BBQ in Berlin

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Description (translated from German via Google Translate): This time in Berlin Wedding we meet Lino Brandi, who traditionally prepares Texas BBQ in his restaurant “Lino’s Barbecue”. He went to Texas to learn from a real pitmaster. In addition to proper preparation, he also learned that German and Czech emigrants started the tradition of the original Texas BBQ 100 years ago. Now the old recipes for German Sausage and Rauchgarung together with Lino are back in Germany.