EditorialSmoked oxtails and housemade boudin are among the specialties at Charlie’s Bar-B-Que, in Beaumont, Texas, in May 2023. (Jessica Attie/The New York Times)
EditorialJeb Bush, then Republican presidential hopeful, arrives at a campaign stop at Shealy's Bar-B-Que in Leesville, S.C., Feb. 16, 2016. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialArmando Vera carves a cow head for barbacoa at Vera’s Backyard Bar-B-Que, which was honored last week as one of “America’s Classics” by the James Beard Foundation, in Brownsville, Texas on Jan. 27, 2020. (Callaghan O'Hare/The New York Times)