LEXINGTON — Everything changed for Norma Frances Tomanetz when Texas Monthly ranked her barbecue the best in the state. Suddenly, hundreds started making the trip to this tiny central Texas town to ...

An eighty-two-year-old pitmaster, who spent much of her life as a meat market owner in a Central Texas town of just over 1,000 people, is up for one of the most prestigious awards in the culinary ...

LEXINGTON, Texas—Texas barbecue has been in the spotlight for the last decade, thanks in part to Texas Monthly’s picks of the best barbecue joints across the state. In Lexington, Snow’s BBQ has made ...

It wasn't the prizes that got Norma Frances Tomanetz working the barbecue pit, she says, but this year, they seem to keep coming. After receiving a nod from the James Beard Foundation in February as ...

Tootsie Tomanetz appears on Netflix's Chef's Table: BBQ, premiering Sept. 2 Tootsie Tomanetz is a legend when it comes to her famous Hill Country barbecue. In the upcoming season of Netflix's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Saturday mornings, 89-year-old Norma Frances “Tootsie” Tomanetz wakes up at 6 A.M.; climbs into her white pickup truck; and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (From left) Ali Clem, pitmaster of la Barbecue in Austin; Norma Frances "Tootsie" Tomanetz, pitmaster at Snow's BBQ in Lexington; ...

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"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." On Saturday mornings, 89-year-old Norma Frances “Tootsie” Tomanetz wakes up at 6 A.M.; climbs into her ...

In Central Texas, the line at any classic Saturday barbecue joint says something about the community: These are people who will wait, sometimes for hours, to get a plate of smoked brisket. But those ...