Texas Q Biscuits

In Austin, I worked alongside the talented David Quintanilla at Asti Trattoria, a posh Italian restaurant. David is one of those rare people who are natural chefs. Give him any ingredient, and he can just intuit how it wants to be prepared. If I were more mystical, I would say he’s found a spiritual path to communicating with ingredients. He makes the best beef chili and barbecue brisket I’ve ever eaten, and I just had to invent a biscuit to go with them, for two reasons: first, because Dav