The flavors and types of barbecue vary widely from state to state, partly because of the variety of wood available in each region. While northern states lean hard on hickory, oak and mesquite are ...

Professional pitmasters order their wood by the cord, but us backyard cooks don’t usually need that much to smoke a brisket. Besides, flavoring your steaks and burgers with a little wood smoke doesn’t ...

Barbecue fans might specifically know mesquite as the popular wood used in smoking. But roughly 12 miles east of Dallas, Texas, suburban Mesquite proves a bustling spot teeming with barbecue history ...

Philosophical barbecue question: Can a restaurant call itself Mesquite BBQ if it doesn’t use a barbecue grill, a pit or a smoker, or even mesquite wood - or any wood - in the cooking process? That was ...