Rang Tang Barbecue Hour

Releasing today in honor of Small Business Saturday, Laraina’s story is the quintessential successful small business arc: she started by selling to the restaurant where she worked and now her pickles are now carried in stores all over the country. Join us on the journey! Show notes Mountain Girl Pickles websiteMountain Girl Pickles on InstagramBoulder […]

As founder Andy and Director of Sales Julia talk about in this episode, Grama’s mission is evident in its name: grass (i.e. land stewardship) comes first; the livestock is the main tool and one of the results of this stewardship. It’s also a way of funding the endeavor, and the resultant grass-finished beef is available […]

Once you know Chris Borke you won’t be surprised by a quirky item listed on Boulder Valley Honey’s pricing sign at the farmers market: “Bee facts: free”. As you’ll hear in this episode, when I arrived at his farm the immersion was so immediate and so fascinating and so worth sharing that we had to […]

Chad Cryderman and Cryderman’s Barbecue is, in a lot of ways, the antithesis of Rang Tang: Chad & Cryderman’s are larger than life; Rang Tang is a little more demure. Some of what him and I have in common is that we are both front-of-the-house type people who ended up cooking/preparing food for our own […]

EPISODE 019 THE POWER CONE. This week on 75% Food we have the man behind the cones: Pete Castleberry, @thepowercone. Not only is his soft serve phenomenal, he's also a great guy and his Instagram account is easily the most entertaining on my feed. The Cone Pony (his van), Napkin Cat (RIP

Show notes + links Mycolove FarmMichael on InstagramEnsō Farm & Forage

Zoe and her business partner Kate started Moon Raccoon Baking Co. in 2020 as a test run; four years later they're on the verge of moving into a brick and mortar. In October I sat down with Zoe to get her culinary story. Tl;dr: she's a total crusher.

Boulder coach & shaman Ginny Muir guides me (host L.R.) through the story of Rang Tang Craft Barbecue before we shift to Ginny's calling and deep work in service to others.

Emmet was 13 when he started his first job in the food industry; most of the next 37 years involved food in one way or another. This (longish) podcast is a survey of that lifetime of experience. If you've ever wondered what life is like in kitchens - or what it's like to find your purpose - you'll likely find this episode fascinating.

If your favorite part of the SuperBowl is analyzing the ads you'll love this interview with my friend Michael. He helped tighten up the Rang Tang type-driven logo and he designed our first trucker hat - I could listen to Michael talk design and branding all day and you probably could too. Check him out.

The trip comes full circle as we reflect on our intentions from the first episode and how they were (magically? nope.) fulfilled.

Another re-listen of a year-old interview that blew me away – Brett drops one knowledge bomb after another about how he has methodically built a continually-expanding barbecue joint

Evan LeRoy of Austin's LeRoy & Lewis talks about learning the bbq ropes and being everywhere that barbecue is being talked about.

5:30am wake-up call for one of the most famous barbecue joints in the country...with some bonus 'cue that was even better

BUTTER! aka Andrew Soto, owner of Butter's Barbecue in Mathis TX joined us for a meal and an interview in Houston. He's the man and I think it comes across in this interview - I LOVED listening to it again.

Reason for the whole trip: L.R. and Andy work for 48 hours in unassuming 'cue joint Butter's

2M Smokehouse in San Antonio served us food that was a reminder of just how good barbecue can be

Meh barbecue + great tacos = a lesson in expectations

Listen to us stumble around trying to describe a perfectly okay experience.

Who knew? Our first stop (in New Mexico, not necessarily synonymous with the word barbecue) is a brisket knockout punch.

In this first episode we leave behind snowy Colorado for a month-long road trip through the spiritual center of American barbecue — Texas, obviously. Also, a discussion about aprons.