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 ...

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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 ...

Beef chuck is a marvelous thing. It can be turned into hamburger or pot roast or one of the tenderest of steaks depending on how this cut, the forequarter of a steer, is broken down — and marketed.

Juniper’s Chef Alex Sze uses the flavorful Pat LaFrieda’s brisket mix—which is actually whole briskets, plus chuck, and the delightfully named “shoulder clod of American Black Angus beef.” Juniper’s ...

Two weeks ago Cranky Frank’s Barbeque in Fredericksburg finally bit the bullet. They raised their prices for barbecue and posted a sign on the door explaining the change to their customers. Not two ...

Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here’s how we test products and why you should trust us. Rattray, 30, and his brother Alex, 25, run ...

According to federal government figures, beef prices are at their highest levels in almost 30 years. The average price of choice-grade beef in February was $5.28. Numbers aren't out yet for March or ...