
Daniel Vaughn
Barbecue Editor at Texas Monthly
Barbecue Editor @TexasMonthly, also tweeting as @tmbbq. Author of @ThePOSM.
Articles
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1 week ago |
texasmonthly.com | Daniel Vaughn
Texas barbecue has drawn many cultural collaborations from around the world over the past few years. Joints have paired their smoked meats with Ethiopian, Vietnamese, Egyptian, and Japanese cuisines. At Parish Barbecue, in Austin, owner and pitmaster Holden Fulco is looking just across the eastern border, to his home state of Louisiana, for menu inspiration at his new food truck. He’s parked outside craft brewery Batch and has been serving on a regular schedule since March.
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2 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Daniel Vaughn
When I pulled up to Smoky Buns, in Round Rock, a suburb just north of Austin, on a recent Friday, I immediately recognized the silhouette of the food truck. Long before he was known as the Sausage Sensei, Bill Dumas fed me some of his early recipes from that window a decade ago, when it had the Smokey Denmark’s name painted on the side. Many of the best barbecue meals I’ve eaten were ordered from the vehicle after it was painted blue with the LeRoy and Lewis Barbecue logo in 2017.
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3 weeks ago |
texasmonthly.com | Daniel Vaughn
In September 2022, Sara and Dustin Treviño called it quits on their barbecue venture, Treviño’s Craft Smokehouse. It had made an impression on North Texas diners from its opening the April prior. Customers came in droves, but whether the couple parked their food trailer in Graford or Haslet, both west of Dallas, the sales were barely paying the bills. “We hadn’t figured it out,” Dustin said.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Daniel Vaughn
For fifty years the gates of Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center were closed. A bitter freeze in 1958 killed much of founder H. J. Lutcher Stark’s plantings, including his prized azaleas. Decades later, reopening plans spearheaded by his namesake foundation were also thwarted by nature, first by Hurricane Rita, in 2005, and then by Ike, in 2008. Finally, in 2009, the 252-acre park opened once again to visitors.
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1 month ago |
texasmonthly.com | Katy Vine |Daniel Vaughn |Kimya Kavehkar
This week, Texas Monthly released its latest ranking of the top fifty barbecue joints in the state. It’s a massive undertaking, one we repeat every four years, and on this week’s episode of TM Out Loud, the editors who organized the project tell host Katy Vine all about how it came together. This piece was produced by Ella Kopeikin, Patrick Michels, and Brian Standefer. Katy Vine (voice-over): Hi, and welcome to TM Out Loud, exclusive audio storytelling for Texas Monthly Audio subscribers.
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