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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Historians are famous for simplifying the complex processes of history into "inflection points" - those transformative events that forever changed the course of human evolution. Sometime in the ...

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 ...

Federal food safety officials and environmental researchers have published year-round guidance for backyard smoking that pairs proper technique with safety-conscious equipment choices. The U.S.

If you're new to BBQ, the types of smokers on the market can be rather overwhelming. There are several different styles and fuel sources and price points. It's hard to fully grasp, which ones are good ...