A Texas Pitmaster Makes Forbes’s 30 Under 30 List

“Of course the first barbecue aficionado to make Forbes 30 Under 30 is from Texas.”

Daniel Vaughn
Texas Monthly November 15, 2017

https://www.texasmonthly.com/bbq/grant-pinkerton-makes-forbes-30-30-list/

“Barbecue hasn’t been well-represented on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list since it launched in 2011. In fact, Grant Pinkerton, of Houston’s Pinkerton’s Barbecue, was told that he was the first pitmaster they’ve recognized when Forbes called him Wednesday morning to congratulate him on making the 2018 list. An earlier email had gotten lost, so he learned just hours before the list was released that he was in the same company as Houston Astro José Altuve and food entrepreneur Ayesha Curry, who just opened her debut restaurant, International Smoke, in San Francisco this week. Curry will join Pinkerton in the Houston culinary scene when the second location of her global barbecue joint opens in 2018.”