And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Franklin breezed into Austin and got a lot of press coverage because Austin, and I've heard it's good. But, when I think Texas barbecue, I think Louie Mueller in Taylor or Blacks, Kreuz or Smitty's in Lockhart among many other small town joints that have been doing it just as well and maybe better for decades. And in Texas, it's all about the meat, not the sauce. They may have sauce, but that isn't the focus.
Aaron Franklin's parents were in the Texas BBQ business. He ended up in it after doing other things. He does a classic South Central Texas BBQ. I will admit that I read the book he co-authored on the subjet. In his book the emphasis is on the meat.
You left out Central Market in Luling.
As to the Sauce, I had his esspresso based sauce. It was good but not ground breaking. I even tried to make it from his recipe and was not knocked out of my socks. I often take a jarred sauce and thin it with a little water and vinegar.
Anything where the first ingredient is not high fructose corn syrup is good (ya hear me, Stubbs?)
ReplyDeleteFour Escobars is the best non-homemade sauce I have ever had.
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BBQ sauce is for hiding crappy cooking. And anyway BBQ sauce is mustard based not tomato. Hehe.
ReplyDeleteNo, it's a vinegar baste or dip.
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DeleteFranklin breezed into Austin and got a lot of press coverage because Austin, and I've heard it's good. But, when I think Texas barbecue, I think Louie Mueller in Taylor or Blacks, Kreuz or Smitty's in Lockhart among many other small town joints that have been doing it just as well and maybe better for decades. And in Texas, it's all about the meat, not the sauce. They may have sauce, but that isn't the focus.
ReplyDeleteAaron Franklin's parents were in the Texas BBQ business. He ended up in it after doing other things. He does a classic South Central Texas BBQ. I will admit that I read the book he co-authored on the subjet. In his book the emphasis is on the meat.
DeleteYou left out Central Market in Luling.
As to the Sauce, I had his esspresso based sauce. It was good but not ground breaking. I even tried to make it from his recipe and was not knocked out of my socks. I often take a jarred sauce and thin it with a little water and vinegar.
Bone Sucking Sauce is one of the best I have used off the shelf.
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