Sacramento Restaurant Guide

MesquiteIt's a Mexican and Southwestern tree with relatives in the bean, clover, herb, pea, shrub, and vetch family. Trees are short and wiry, wield sharp three-inch thorns, and grow in dense thickets. Mesquite wood has dark, hard, tangled grain, burns hot, and is unmistakably aromatic. 500 years ago, Spanish conquistadors took mesquite seed pods with them as protein-rich, energy-packed horse feed when they searched for gold throughout Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Today, those states are Mesquite Country. Ranchers keep their rangeland clear for cattle, a never-ending and tractor-intense, process. J. R. 's friends keep him supplied with the world's best smoking wood - mesquite. There is no substitute for Genuine Mesquite Smoking, Demand the Best: J. R. 's Authentic Texas Bar-B-Que!