Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen has been eating Texas barbeque this week in Lockhart and he is finding it to be a very satisfying experience. Indeed, one of the many pleasures of living in Texas is taking a day to visit several of the charming small towns in the triangle formed by the cities of Houston, Austin and San Antonio, and sampling the local barbeque. One of my fondest memories from years ago is accompanying a client to several of these towns as we took a day to meet witnesses in a lawsuit I was defending for him. Each meeting took place in each town’s best local barbeque restaurant and, of course, we sampled the barbeque at every spot. To this day, I have not come up with a better way to prepare for a trial.