It doesn’t get much better than pit beef when it comes to iconic Maryland meals. These thin-sliced roast beef sandwiches are as simple as they get, but oh-so delicious. I make sure to get one every ...

There’s a seriousness and beauty to a food whose preparation begins with the need to dig a rather large hole. Though it might come as a surprise that throughout the global history of gastronomy, ...

Barbecue, in its many permutations of fire, smoke, and animal flesh, is more than just a timeless human tradition, key to global population growth and food preservation. It’s also a semi-unwritten ...

Your neighborhood barbecue joint probably has a weekend special, and it’s likely to be barbacoa. The Mexican delicacy is traditionally made with lamb, but here in the United States beef cheeks are ...

Chicago classic meets Texas pit — it’s BBQ Italian Beef, Chuds BBQ style! In this flavor-loaded episode, Chuds BBQ takes the ...

Typically, when you hear a pitmaster’s introduction to the world of barbecue, tales of growing up around cooking and a passion for food come into play. This isn’t that type of story. Lance Kirkpatrick ...

Full disclosure: Before moving to the DMV area and starting as The Baltimore Sun’s new food reporter, I had never had a pit beef sandwich. Embarrassingly, I didn’t even know what tiger sauce was! (For ...