For those who know and love Texas barbecue, today, the barbecue community is celebrating the famous barbecue pitmaster Tootsie Tomanetz turning 88 years young on April 21. The Smoke Sheet barbecue ...

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; ...

Snow’s BBQ, based in the tiny town of Lexington, Texas, and only open on Saturdays, is widely regarded as one of the best barbecue joints in America. Both Texas Monthly and Southern Living named it ...

Barbecue lovers in Central Texas have long relished the greatness of Tootsie Tomanetz’s mouth-watering brisket, ribs and sausage. Tomanetz is the pit boss at Snow’s BBQ, which in the pre-coronavirus ...

Back when 86-year old pitmaster Tootsie Tomanetz started making barbecue in the 1960s, nobody even talked about brisket. “It was the toughest damn piece you can get a hold of. It went into hamburger ...

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 ...