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j c reid texas food and travel writing skip to content j c reid texas food and travel writing home about hire me food all barbecue cfs challenge food policy international cuisine restaurant reviews seafood travel all categories a g 29 95 barbecue best food writing blog only carbonara cfs challenge cooking favorite dish favorites food food for thought food policy foodie movies gulf coast h z houston chronicle houston press international cuisine italy lists personal profile photos print print features recipe restaurant reviews seafood texas travel carbonara my houston chronicle bbq columns older posts the san sebastián chronicles posted on october 2 2024 by j c reid j c reid in san sebastian spain it all started in october 2012 when my wife tamara and i visited friends at a vacation house near ventorros de san josé outside of granada spain we decided that we d spend a few extra days in spain after that visit was over and we started looking for possible destinations i d spent quite a bit of time in the usual places like madrid and barcelona so we looked at some alternate possibilities as my background is in architecture we settled on a trip to bilbao to see the famous guggenheim museum there as we researched the region we became more and more fascinated by this place called the basque country further poking around the interwebz led us to a place called san sebastián that i had only heard of in the context of its film festival as well as the troubles it faced due to a separatist political movement that gained prominence in the 1980s and 90s so after our stay near granada we piled into a rented car and drove a full day to basque country bilbao was fantastic and produced one of my all time favorite posts but san sebastián proved to be a truly unique place it evoked a feeling that was both foreign and familiar the people were both aloof and engaging to visitors some of them depending on their age and when they went to school spoke an indecipherable language known as basque many of their generation x grew up during a time when the basque language was officially outlawed by the spanish government and do not speak it fluently and more importantly everyone we met there was obsessed with food and wine i kept thinking to myself how did this place happen what s the story here so for the next four years off and on i wrote and researched and sifted through hundreds of pictures we took additional research happened during a return trip in january 2014 the resulting piece ended up being about 8000 words realistically few people sit down and read 8000 words at a stretch anymore so i broke it into 10 easy to digest chronicles that tell the story of contemporary san sebastián as i see it to convey the feeling of the place as much as possible i ve included images videos and maps that tell the story as much as the copy does smell o vision and taste o vision would have certainly helped but i ll leave it to you to travel there yourself i ll post the links to the chronicles below one per day starting on monday october 3rd thanks for reading borda berri cider txikiteo the basques txokos tamborrada pintxos gastronomika arzak star struck index bibliography posted in blog only favorites food international cuisine photos travel tagged food pintxos san sebastián spain travel wine 4 comments the first ever bbq cook off posted on august 21 2016 by j c reid gilroy barbecue in the process of poking around the internet for information about goat and lamb for my latest barbecue column i came across a reference to a very early barbecue cook off the 3 feb 1870 edition of the san francisco chronicle features a blurb by snooks who recounts a competition featuring a cook off between promoters stockmen of sheep and lamb in the central california town of gilroy one mr sargent represented the cashmere goat camp yes same cashmere as your sweater and mr reynolds the merino sheep team arguably makes an even better sweater each team picked six disinterested judges then commenced to slaughter barbecue and present the meats for judging by a vote of 8 4 the goat came out on top another hundred or so guests descended on the remaining meat for what was surely quite a feast at that time no word if there was a comparison of sweaters technically this was more of a throwdown between the fanciers of goat and lamb but i ve yet to find a reference to any earlier event so closely related to a barbecue cook off posted in barbecue food houston chronicle tagged barbecue cabrito california gilroy goat lamb 1 comment granger s in sabine pass posted on july 26 2015 by j c reid menu from granger s in sabine pass ca 1940s or 50s reader bill gay sent me these great scans of the menu from granger s in sabine pass after reading my column about barbecue crabs in the houston chronicle i d say these menus are circa late 1940s or early 50s here s what bill had to say enjoyed your article in the chronicle today i was born and raised in port arthur and it was always a thrill to go to granger s on sunday after church old man granger would always meet everybody when they came in and the food was absolutely out of the world remember that during the war beer came in quart bottles only to save glass for the war effort remember when it burned and was that a heartbreaker the wife loves bbq crabs so i ll take her down to galveston some day soon thought you might enjoy these pictures best regards bill granger s was a legendary seafood restaurant in sabine pass in the 40s and 50s where barbecue crabs were invented it burned down in 1958 pat sharpe of texas monthly wrote a great history that you can read here legend has it that one of the cooks at granger s later went to work for the sartin family which popularized the barbecue crab as one of the few dishes that is truly indigenous to the texas gulf coast there are a few interesting things to point out about these menus so let s take a closer look continue reading posted in blog only favorite dish favorites food gulf coast seafood texas tagged barbecue crabs granger s seafood gulf coast sabine pass sartin s texas 20 comments list of my houston chronicle barbecue columns posted on june 26 2015 by j c reid new zion bbq i ve just created a page that lists all of my houston chronicle barbecue columns with non paywalled links for your viewing pleasure you can view it by clicking here or clicking the my houston chronicle bbq columns at any time in the menu above after writing 52 consecutive weekly columns that s a year s worth the chronicle has effectively renewed my contract for another year thanks y all i expect to do a bit more traveling as well as writing a few more historical pieces and you might even see me cooking a brisket or two we ll see how it goes many thanks to my regular readers and those who write in each week with comments a recent column a bastion of barbecue tradition in the piney woods of east texas generated the most emails of any column i ve written people really love that place in the central texas bbq centric world we live in today it is often overlooked as is a lot of east texas barbecue i ll be pointing my gps toward east texas a bit more over the next few months lot s of good stories there even though good barbecue is harder to find in the new zion piece i purposefully left out the founding story as it has been told many times here s a great piece about new zion written by pat sharpe of texas monthly if you are interested also a reader sent the following email regarding the founding of new zion it s basically an eyewitness account along the lines of what s been told in the past still a fun read and worth entering into the public record thank you for the wonderful article on new zion my practice was about two blocks down the road i was privileged to watch the entire development of the church barbeque the church building was a somewhat dilapidated frame structure smaller than the current building brother ward and mrs ward were faithful members of the church they lived in houston where bro ward worked as a painter mrs ward grew up in huntsville not long after i opened my practice in 1970 bro and mrs ward started coming to huntsville every saturday bro ward spent his saturdays repainting the church inside and out mrs ward acquired a barbeque pit made from a 55 gallon barrel she cooked lunch for bro ward every saturday it frequently consisted of barbeque when the wind was right the aroma drifted to my office and made my mouth water shortly passers by began to stop and inquire if she would sell any to them she soon expanded her menu and started selling to the public every saturday when it didn t rain when the barrel pit rusted out she acquired a more sturdy steel pit the building the current bbq is in became empty bro ward added a covered area to the house and mrs ward moved her pit under the covered area she could then sell in any weather while bro ward worked on the church they dedicated all profit to the church they soon had enough money to start an addition to the church when bro ward retired they moved to huntsville and started selling six days a week various church members helped when they could they moved the dinning area indoors they expanded the size of the building to what it is today a lady whose name escapes me was a high school music director in houston when she retired she started helping full time she was right out of a norman rockwell painting she was exactly like moms mabley she constantly scolded the customers about all sorts of things i don t know a person who was not in love with her eventually they were able to redo the church adding brick to the outside these wonderful giving people are dead now heaven must hold a special place for such generous people our country is full of such people people like them do not get the press coverage i miss them thank you gerry etheredge of huntsville texas posted in barbecue food houston chronicle print texas tagged barbecue bbq new zion bbq 2 comments new york trip report june 2014 posted on june 26 2014 by j c reid freedom tower from soho a quick visit to nyc for the big apple barbecue block party found t and me sneaking into some old restaurant favorites as well as a few new places we were staying in the flatiron district near madison square park where the festival was held so our first stop naturally was eataly continue reading posted in blog only food international cuisine seafood travel uncategorized tagged amatriciana carbonara danny meyer eataly ippudo lupa mario batali ramen 2 comments older posts search search october 2024 1 august 2016 1 july 2015 1 june 2015 1 june 2014 1 april 2014 1 march 2014 1 january 2014 2 november 2013 2 october 2013 1 september 2013 1 august 2013 1 june 2013 1 may 2013 2 december 2012 2 november 2012 1 october 2012 2 august 2012 2 july 2012 1 april 2012 5 march 2012 3 february 2012 1 january 2012 2 december 2011 3 november 2011 5 october 2011 4 september 2011 6 august 2011 1 july 2011 3 june 2011 2 may 2011 6 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