For this cook, I trimmed off all of the fat cap and silver skin from the wagyu tri tip roasts. I seasoned them liberally with the above beef rub and let them rest a bit before hitting the Santa Maria ...

Santa Maria-style barbecue dates back to the mid-19th century, when settlers in rancheros throughout the Santa Maria Valley roasted sirloin over red oak fire. A century later, in the 1950s, Santa ...

The common list of American barbecue styles is familiar to most people at this point: Texas, Carolina, and Kansas City. But in coastal California, one of the country's lesser-known regional barbecue ...

With so many different styles of regional BBQ in the U.S. alone, barbecue can easily mean different things to different people. California is, admittedly, not necessarily synonymous with the concept ...

In California, whole seasoned roasts are strung up on steel rods and then gradually lowered over hot red oak coals. Cooking a whole roast, generally 2 1/2-3 pounds, takes about 45-50 minutes for ...

AJ Dybantsa, Richie Saunders help No. 10 BYU beat Pacific 93-57 AJ Dybantsa had 23 points and 10 rebounds, Richie Saunders led No 10 BYU with 24 points, and the Cougars beat Pacific 93-57 on Tuesday ...

This thick, triangle-shaped cut of beef is grilled over red oak and called barbecue in its home of Santa Maria, Calif., but it cooks and eats like a steak. As it should, because it is from the bottom ...

While the localized flavor of traditional Santa Maria-style barbecue is slowly becoming more widely known, the tradition has had a home on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i for almost 20 years. Jason ...

Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. The smell of red oak smoke and sizzling meat will ...