Cornbread’s connection to barbecue
January 9, 2025
Cornbread’s connection to barbecue. On a recent visit to the Memorial-area location of The Brisket House, I found an unusual item on the menu: cornbread. Cornbread is surprisingly hard to find on Texas barbecue-joint menus. For anyone who grew up in Texas or the southern U.S., cornbread was a constant presence on the family dining table or at local restaurants. My first memory of cornbread, beyond the ubiquitous box of Jiffy cornbread mix that appeared in our kitchen every Thanksgiving, was at The Black-Eyed Pea restaurant in Beaumont where I grew up in the early ’80s. Long before it expanded to dozens of locations throughout the southern U.S. (and eventually
