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Pete Olmos died on Father’s Day 2017. The patriarch was a retired mariachi who spent his Sundays serving his large family barbecue smoked in a converted water heater. After dark, Olmos and his wife would play guitar and sing. With his passing, so went the tradition—or so thought grandson John Paul Govea. “There weren’t going to be any more cookouts because no one else in the family really barbecued that often,” the 38-year-old Fort Worth native explains. But Govea took it upon himself to resurrect the practice. He got his feet wet with barbecue competitions, but he decided to focus on smoking meat for backyard get-togethers while working full-time as an electrician. Then, in February 2021, Govea was asked to cater a party. Requests to provide…

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