This DFW Joint Is Truly Original, Down to the Lawry’s Sprinkled on the Wood

Terrance Smith was good enough with a grill to make some spending money while attending Texas A&M-Commerce. He sold chicken and links from the parking lot of his dorm, and when he went back home to visit his parents he’d normally grill them some steaks. One day he decided to level up and try to smoke a brisket. “I got too big for my britches. The brisket was so tough, I couldn’t cut it,” Smith recalled with a laugh. Even worse, his mother, Odell, called him out. “You’ll be a real barbecue man when you learn how to cook brisket,” she told him, and he took on the challenge.Smith didn’t smoke a brisket he was happy with until after getting his degree in psychology. He…

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