It was around 46 B.C. when Julius Caesar decided to fiddle with the calendar and made January 1 the start of the new year. The month of January was named after the god Janus, a two-faced deity who Romans believed symbolically looked back at the previous year while looking ahead to the new year.…
When we look back on 2021, we’ll remember it as a year when restaurants learned to manage pandemic restrictions, inflating costs and staffing shortages in an attempt to bring a sense of normalcy back to the dining public. For barbecue hounds, this meant a chance to get out and try new favorites and old standbys from the land of smoke and fire.…
Born into a family that’s become synonymous with Texas barbecue, John Mueller could never break away from the call of smoking meats. In a 2013 profile in Texas Monthly, Mueller described his job title. “I don’t say ‘pitmaster.’ I say that I ‘cook.”…
