dove season
The calendar says fall starts near the end of September. In Texas, it starts a few weeks earlier. The leaves aren’t changing; it’s still scorching outside, and the summer heat won’t let up until mid-October. But the first week of…
A morning at snow’s barbecue
A Saturday morning in Lexington, Texas, where lawn chairs, quiet conversations, and old-school barbecue reveal why Snow’s has become a Texas tradition My alarm blared at 3:30 a.m. It was time. I quietly made a cup of coffee, trying not…
the long way to a fish fry
A weekend on granger Lake where old jokes, new boats, and fried catfish reminded me that the best stories are usually the ones closest to home. Around 10pm I turned down Tyler’s gravel drive and saw through the headlights the…
261 miles of whole hog
in search of north carolinas best whole hog barbecue As I stepped off the plane in Raleigh, North Carolina, I remember thinking, “I can’t wait to have my mind blown.”Every year we take a food trip to a somewhere we’ve…