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Curry Boys BBQ – San Antonio, Texas

Gil Garduno — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:01:24 +0000

The 1970s were characterized by writer Tom Wolfe as the “Me Decade” and derided by cynics as the “Disco Era.” It was an era of contrasts: the national crisis of confidence described by President Jimmy Carter as a “malaise” and the ubiquitous yellow smiley face; the melodic, velvety stylings of the Carpenters and the edgy, funky beat of disco; an explosion of copycat fast food chain restaurants and the introduction of innovative fusion cuisine in many contemporary restaurants. Fusion cuisine is the inventive combination of diverse, sometimes disparate culinary traditions, elements and ingredients to form an entirely new genre. In large metropolitan areas, particularly in California, the fusion of different cuisines became commonplace. Restaurants featuring the melding of French and…

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Terry Black’s BBQ – Lockhart, Texas

Gil Garduno — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:01:07 +0000

My Kim won’t be jealous that I was in the company of two winsome women during my inaugural visit to Terry Black’s BBQ. She might, however, be unhappy if I were to come home perfumed by post oak, a sure sign I had been enjoying Texas barbecue without her. Post oak is the wood many of the Lone Star State’s best barbecue restaurants smoke to give their meats inimitable flavors and aromas. Okay, she might also be jealous that I polished off a monsterous beef rib, the type of which tipped over Fred Flintstone’s granite automobile. It would have been more than enough for her and The Dude to share with me, but hey, how often do you get to…

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Burnt Bean – Seguin, Texas

Gil Garduno — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:01:29 +0000

Legend has it that shortly after the horrendous mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Burnt Bean pitmaster and co-owner Ernest Servantes was asked to serve barbecue to law enforcement officials in Uvalde. According to sources, Servantes, himself an Uvalde native, refused to serve anything to the milksops whose cowardly inaction resulted in the fatal shooting of 19 students and 2 teachers, and the injuring of 17 others. Servantes wasn’t around when my new friend and dining companion Melinda Martinez and I finally completed our time in the purgatory of a queue that snaked to the end of the block. We asked one of the restaurant’s servers, but he was unable to either confirm or refute the story. At any regard, it’s…

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