Dreamland Barbecue in Jerusalem Heights
On This Day In 2009: Final Visit To Dreamland Barbecue (est.1958)
On This Day In 2011: Scott Morales At Taylor Cafe
Pitboss Scott Morales At Taylor Cafe
Scott Morales has been the pitboss at Taylor Cafe in Taylor, Texas for over a decade. We go here for handmade Bohunk sausage and briskets cooked over post oak fires. Vencil Mares is the owner of the old joint (est. 1948) but it’s Mr Morales who shepherds the meat from raw to a state of extreme deliciousness.
Morales runs through a half ton of brisket per week at the old smokehouse, and just like any other barbecue restaurant, Taylor Cafe has its good days and its bad days.
On This Day In 2011: R&G Barbecue In McMahan Texas
R&G Barbecue In McMahan Texas
On this day in 2011 we visited R&G Barbecue in tiny McMahan, Texas (near Lockhart). Roy Jeffrey, the owner and pitboss has over a half century in the central Texas barbecue game.
Here’s our report
On This Day In 1917: The Original Dixieland Jass Band Records “Livery Stable Blues”
We’ve been fortunate to live in Kentucky, the birthplace of Bluegrass music; Alabama, the cradle of Out-Jazz via the compositions of Sun Ra; Texas, the Mesopotamia of Outlaw Country, and now, Louisiana, the nursery for a genre of music that would become known as Jazz.
On February 26th 1917, an all-white group of musicians known as The Original Dixieland Jass Band, stepped into a studio at Victor Talking Machine Company in New York City, and recorded “Livery Stable Blues.” This marked the first time that jass had ever been committed to wax. The cut would sell over a million copies (.75c retail)
Writer Christian Blauvelt, in an article for BBC, ably explores the origins of Jazz, and we highly recommend his work.
Players for The Original Dixieland Jass Band
Nick LaRocca — cornet
Eddie Edwards — trombone
Larry Shields — clarinet
Henry Ragas — piano
Tony Spargo — drums
On This Day In 2012: Four Mile Hike Through Zagreb Croatia
Zagreb Croatia
On the hunt for Serbian barbecue in Zagreb, Croatia.
Mardi Gras One Year Ago Today
2016 Mardi Gras
On This Day In 2011: Final Day Of Service For Franklin Barbecue Trailer
Franklin Barbecue’s Original Food Trailer
Before moving to New Orleans we lived two blocks from Aaron Franklin’s barbecue trailer in the French Place neighborhood of Austin, Texas. When the wunderkind first opened for business we quickly became regulars. Then Shaggybevo got on board, and the scene slowly became unnavigable as lines grew to previously unseen proportions.
On this day in 2011 we paid one final visit as the Franklins had announced they would be moving into the former Ben’s Longbranch down the road apiece on 11th Street.
Six years go by in a flash but if memory serves we cleaned the trailer out of their remaining brisket, and may have had a stray pork rib or sausage link.
We may have even shed a tear or two, and read some Thornton Wilder. Six years is a long time but it does pass quickly.
On This Day In 2014: The Eastern Kentucky Chili Bun Trail
The Eastern Kentucky Chili Bun Trail
Perhaps the most unassuming restaurant in Appalachia: the Shop-N-Cart in Lily, Kentucky. This is the nexus of The Eastern Kentucky Chili Bun Trail , a route that runs a few hundred miles through Whitley, Laurel, Knox, Bell, Letcher, Harlan, Jackson, Clay, Perry and Owsley counties.
One Year Ago Today: The Last Taco Tico In Louisiana
The Last Taco Tico In Louisiana
Taco Tico is experiencing something of a corporate rebirth but in Louisiana we are down to exactly one location. It’s in Kenner, a small bedroom community that’s locally famous for being home to a long strip of international restaurants on Williams Blvd.
This is also where Taco Tico vends cheap, crispy tacos once again made with their famous carne molida recipe that was briefly shelved when the company changed hands in 1988.
The Last Taco Tico In The State Of Louisiana
Original Taco Tico Menu
On This Day In 2015: Chunky Shoals Fish Camp In Chunky Mississippi
Chunky Shoals Fish Camp In Chunky Mississippi
He filed this report.