Yes, it’s been about five weeks since I last updated this blog. No, I’m not dead.
Rather, I’m back home in Texas. I am available for freelance work, have been working steadily on a few projects and am applying for jobs and internships. Speaking of projects, tomorrow I’ll post a picture story I completed in the last week of my internship in Atlanta — so be on the lookout for that!
In the meantime, today my dad and I made a pilgrimage to Lockhart, Texas. Officially “The Barbecue Capital of Texas,” as declared by the state legislature in 2003, Lockhart is a small town south of Austin. It has four barbecue restaurants. We went to Smitty’s.
Dad savors the last bite of lunch at Smitty's.
Yeah. We drove almost five hours roundtrip from Houston for this:
Pork ribs, brisket and sausage - and, of course, cheap white bread. What's up with barbecue and cheap white bread?
On the trip back, I realized I’m not a big-enough food — or meat, or barbecue — aficionado to be making these kinds of trips. I’m certain many foodies are game for pilgrimages to the meccas of their various food interests, but I’m just not cut out for that. I know when food is bad, but after a point, meat is meat. Barbecue is barbecue. It’s good when it’s good. If one barbecue place is better than another, I wouldn’t know the difference.
Shame on me, as a Texan? Maybe.
(Check back tomorrow for my picture story!)
Words and Light 
The best part of this is that you are so Texan that it didn’t occur to you to mention to your out of town readers that BBQ is properly served on paper with only knives as utensils.
Ah, but see, that struck me as weird, too. I was okay with the paper, but asked my dad where the forks were. He didn’t know, so I just zipped up my mansuit and ate with my hands.
OMG, Smitty’s is okay but if you are in Lockhart you have to go to Kruetz. My Aunt and Uncle and I are trying to plan a trip to Austin and Lockhart just for the BBQ. The cheap white bread is just a side, and everything but the meat is just kept at a minimum as to not take away from the amazing taste.
I am sorry you don’t appreciate that BBQ, but it is some of the best in the US.
So… you’re saying… I oughta go back to Lockhart for Kruetz?
Where else have you been for BBQ? I’m hoping I’ll finally have some Kansas City BBQ next month.
The other big BBQ town I have been to is in Kentucky, Paducah, amazing BBQ!
I have had authentic Kansas City BBQ in Oklahoma City of all places, but my problem with Kansas City BBQ is all the sauce, it’s really about the meat not the sauce IMO.
Of course I have had a lot of NC BBQ which is good, but it’s weird to put cole slaw on top of a sandwich.
I’ve driven through Paducah a few times, but never heard of it as a BBQ town! Next time I go through (no idea when that would be), I’ll try to stop and check it out.
I’ll report back after my Kansas City BBQ experience…
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