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Markus just directed “The Kings of BBQ Barbecue Kuwait”, an award-winning documentary film chronicling the mission of attempting to serve authentic-style BBQ to our troops stationed in Kuwait.
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Earl Pomerantz, the show’s original head writer, gave Markus...
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John Markus and Bill Persky • May 9, 1994 • New York City...
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Aaron travels to a BBQ cook-off competition in Kansas with...
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- Larry Sanders
HBO 1992-1998. View on IMDB. Markus worked on the sixth...
- Lateline
NBC 1998-1999 SHOWTIME 1999 View on IMDB Co-created with...
- A Different World
NBC 1998-1999. View on IMDB. Markus Co-created this show...
- Kristin
NBC 2001 View on IMDB Created for Tony Award winning actress...
- Taxi
ABC 1978-1982 NBC 1982-1983 View on IMDB As much as Markus...
- Working Stiffs
CBS 1979 View on IMDB Markus remembers very little about...
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BBQ Hall of Fame. Markus was just inducted into the 2022 BBQ Hall of Fame, by The American Royal Society and Kansas City BBQ Society.
(June 14, 2022 – Hour Two)10:14 & 10:35pm – A few weeks ago there was a new class of BBQ Hall of Fame’ers inducted. Tonight, I grab John Markus and talk to h...
- Aaron Franklin, Franklin Barbecue
- John Markus,"Bbq Pitmasters"
- Myron Mixon, Jack's Old South BBQ
- Louie, Bobby and Wayne Mueller, Louie Mueller BBQ
- Frederick Louis Fountaine, Louie Mueller BBQ
- Mike and Amy Mills, 17th Street Barbecue and Memphis Championship Barbecue
- Chris Lilly, Big Bob Gibson BBQ
- Melissa Cookston, Memphis BBQ Co.
- John Mueller, John Mueller Meat Co.
- Tootsie Tomanetz, Snow's BBQ
He’s the owner and pitmaster of Austin's Franklin Barbecue – probably the most famous everyman restaurant in the country, and most definitely the most famous BBQ joint – and this year he became the first pitmaster to take home the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef: Southwest. The achievement legitimized American barbecue as a distinctive c...
Thanks to shows like Top Chef and just about everything on Food Network, cooking has become part of our pop culture. Though he isn’t a pitmaster himself, Markus – the Emmy-winning creator of BBQ Pitmasters – has been hugely influential in promoting barbecue as a culinary artand in fostering the celebrity status of guys like Franklin and Myron Mixon...
A competitor-turned-judge on BBQ Pitmasters and author of the popular cookbooks Smokin' with Myron Mixon and Everyday Barbecue: At Home with America's Favorite Pitmaster, Mixon is generally considered "the winningest man in barbecue." The more than 180 grand championships and 1,700 BBQ trophies he's won as chief cook of Jack's Old South Competition...
Louie Mueller retired in 1974 and died in 1992, but he remains one of the gods of Texas pitmasters. His son Bobby carried on his legacy until his own death in 2008, and now Bobby's son, Wayne – the third generation owner and pitmaster – is keeping the legend alive at one of the best known, most popular, most significant barbecue joints in the count...
Fountaine, one of the first true celebrity pitmasters in the country, has manned the pits at Louie Mueller for almost 40 years. His brisket is renowned (Aaron Franklin uses his technique), and his secret sauce recipe was two decades in the making.
Mike Mills is "The Legend" – a four-time World Champion and three-time Grand World Champion of Memphis in May, Grand Champion of the Jack Daniel's World Invitational Barbecue Cooking Contest, a Barbecue Hall of Fame inductee and the recipient of a host of other accolades. Amy Mills, Mike’s daughter, is a respected barbecue industry professional in ...
Lilly is the only five-time champion of the Memphis in May BBQ cook-off – aka the "Super Bowl of Swine" – and the author of Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book: Recipes and Secrets From a Legendary Barbecue Joint. The title is no joke: The Alabama BBQ joint is considered one of the most important and most influential in America.
Cookston is not only the winningest woman in barbecue, she’s one of the winningest barbecue cooks overall. A two-time grand champion at Memphis in May, she owns three Memphis BBQ Co. restaurants (a fourth is in the works), with 300 employees and $10-15 million in annual revenue. The only person to win the World Hog Championship three years in a row...
John Mueller is the guy people love to hate in the soap-opera-y world of Texas BBQ. But give the guy credit for having the cojones to leave a hugely popular and successful family business (yes, Louie Mueller) to go off and do something on his own ... and then do it again when the first attempt failed … and then again, in a joint venture with his si...
Yes, Texas again. Deal with it. Snow's shot out of obscurity when a reader reached out to Texas Monthly after its 2003 barbecue issue (a top-50 ranking done every five years) and TM writers blew it out of the water in 2008. "Miss Tootsie", 80, was called by Texas Monthly as the "first lady of Texas barbecue" and "possibly the greatest female pitmas...
Oct 7, 2022 · The PERFECT Philly cheese steak with John Markus from BBQ Pitmasters. Our friend John Markus shows us how to make the PERFECT Philly style cheese steak on his FIREDISC. How do you make...
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Apr 9, 2013 · The documentary, "The Kings of BBQ Barbecue Kuwait," chronicles Markus' introduction to barbecue, the planning process for the trip, and footage from Kuwait. The film has already received...
Aug 25, 2015 · In recent years, Markus, a barbecue connoisseur, has been the producer for the last six seasons of Destination America's docu-reality series BBQ Pitmasters, which features Richmond's own Tuffy Stone, owner of Q Barbeque.
