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Jul 2, 2014 · “They were awful.” John Markus. The Franken rib debacle ignited Markus’s passion and led him on a quest to understand how to make the beloved cuisine well. After some research he flew to...
BBQ Pitmasters. A hobby turned into a television hit on a minor network. In its 8th year, but creatively peaked in the first season on TLC. Canceled five times, it’s still running on “Destination America” despite my efforts. More Info | View on IMDB.
- 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...
Sep 8, 2016 · Some really bad ribs inspired John Markus to become a decorated pitmaster and one of the most influential people in barbecue.
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.
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Jul 10, 2015 · It was some really bad ribs that inspired John Markus to become a decorated pitmaster and one of the most influential people in barbecue.
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I had the distinct pleasure to interview John Markus, Executive Producer of the new TLC series BBQ Pitmasters. John is an award winning writer and producer. He has won an Emmy, a Peabody and two Humanitas prizes.
