Oral Histories
Here, as part of the Southern Foodways Alliance's larger Southern Barbecue Trail project, you’ll find biographies, transcripts, photographs, and audio clips from the more than twenty-five Texas interviews we’ve conducted so far. We hope you will use these in your own explorations of central Texas barbecue.
- Archie, Horace and May. Church of the Holy Smoke, New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Barbecue, Hunstville
- Blondin, Art. Artz Rib House, Austin
- Bracewell, Billy, Bryan, and Ernest. Southside Market, Elgin
- Capello, Joe. City Market, Luling
- Dugas, Nicole. Barbecuties, Austin
- Dziuk, Marvin. Dziuk’s Meat Market, Castroville
- Graham, Tyler. Graham Land and Cattle, Gonzales
- Haberman, Danny. Pok-E-Jo’s, Round Rock
- Inman, Billy and Francis. Inman’s Ranch House, Marble Falls
- LeClair, Kris. The Salt Lick, Driftwood
- Lopez, Richard. Gonzales Food Market, Gonzales
- Mares, Pat. Ruby’s Barbecue, Austin
- Mares, Vencil. Taylor Cafe, Taylor
- Mays, Waunda. Sam’s Barbecue, Austin
- McMurtry, Jim. Smokey Denmark Sausage Company, Austin
- Meyer, Becky and Gary. Meyer’s Elgin Smokehouse, Elgin
- Meyer, Betty and Gregg. Meyer’s Sausage Company, Elgin
- Mueller, Bobby. Louie Mueller Barbecue, Taylor
- Schmidt, Rick. Kreuz Market, Lockhart
- Sullivan, Joe. House Park Barbecue, Austin
- Torres, Aurelio. Mi Madres, Austin
- Vinikoff, Ronnie. Forestry Management, Rockdale
- Wash, Ben. Ben’s Long Branch Barbecue, Austin
- Wiley, Don. D. Wiley, Inc., Buda
- Wootan, Terry. Cooper’s Old Time Pit Barbecue, Llano