"In our business, hickory wood cut right from the farm is the one that brought us to the dance, and after 80 years in business, is still the one I would recommend for pork," Shoults said ...

You might hear about alder, apple, peach, and beech wood on barbecue television shows, but in Texas we smoke with mesquite, oak, pecan, and hickory. I talked to several wood suppliers and ...

Sometimes we mix in a little pecan, but oak and hickory mostly. We cut the wood and put the wood in the burn box and the wood turns into these great, hot coals. We burn the wood down because when ...