Haskell BBQ is named for my grandfather, James Haskell Adams. Haskell was his middle name, and nobody knows where it came from. He was born in Picayune, Mississippi, and he was the greatest man I ever knew.

He loved his steaks. He loved to barbecue. Growing up, there was always good southern cooking on the table — catfish, crawdads, and a lazy Susan of hot sauce every single time we got together. He moved out to California for work and stayed, but he brought Mississippi with him. He taught me the ways of barbecue himself, including his kielbasa done a very special way I’ll never forget.

He passed in 2013, and there’s never been a cookout since that I didn’t think of him. I always said I’d name a barbecue place after him one day.

This is that place. Everything here is gear he’d have approved of — tools that hold up to real fire and real weekends. No gimmicks. Just honest equipment for honest cooking, the way Haskell taught me.