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A family went from backyard smoke sessions to a James Beard Award and they explain exactly how.
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In this episode
- The real story behind Heritage Barbecue winning a James Beard Award
- How a family turned a backyard hobby into a celebrated restaurant
- What it takes to evolve a winning recipe without losing your roots
- A street-level tour of the Santa Ana food scene that shaped their cooking
About this episode
Food, and especially BBQ, has the power to bring us together and divide us into crazy feuds of who exactly makes the best style. This week’s guests seem to have finally solved who makes the best BBQ, and it’s them.Daniel, Brenda, and Benjamin Castillo take a cruise around Santa Ana to walk us through their humble beginnings of cooking and smoking BBQ in their backyard to winning a James Beard Award for Best in Class at their award-winning restaurant, Heritage Barbecue.
Now, they’re venturing out to elevate their current recipes and experiment at their new restaurant, Le Hut Dinette. So buckle up and come on a culinary adventure with Locales Only!
Big thanks to Fletcher-Jones Motorcar of Newport Beach for sponsoring the show and building out the all-electric Mercedes-Benz EQE as our rolling podcast studio!
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About Locales Only
There’s so much that makes Southern California one of the best places in the world. That’s why, for almost a decade, the founder of Locale magazine, Erik Hale, has been showcasing the people, places, restaurants, and events that give SoCal its reputation.
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