Alex Pope, a chef and owner of the whole animal butcher shop Local Pig, is a partner in the museum. Barbecue is about “sharing and coming together,” Bender said. “And butchers and pitmasters ...
A popular Texas Hill Country barbecue spot is slopping tangy sauce into a nearby town on Highway 281. The home of former President Lyndon B. Johnson will soon be home to the newest Pig Pen BBQ ...
Food writer Jonathan Bender is co-founder of the Museum of BBQ alongside Kansas City chef Alex Pope, owner of the Local Pig restaurant. "If you could take the basic elements of barbecue and the ...