Restaurant
la Barbecue
Brick-and-mortar barbecue joint serving smoked brisket from custom-built convection smokers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to la Barbecue in Austin, Texas traces the spring of twenty twelve, when LeAnn Mueller relit a smoker with a stranger named John Lewis just days after a very public split with her own brother. It follows Lewis's unusual choice to build his own convection smokers rather than buy a standard offset, and the family barbecue legacy LeAnn carried from her father in Taylor. Along the way you'll learn there is real chemistry hiding just under the bark on your own plate. Best heard with a plate of brisket in hand, before the first bite.
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