Bigmista's Barbecue: Fire it up!

The Torrance farmers market is in full bloom: pluots mottled with patches of red and green, bottles of fresh-pressed pomegranate juice, eggplants as thick as tree trunks. Weekenders huddle under canopies clutching pupusas and plates of pad Thai, the electric hum of a blues man's guitar and the distant patter of steel drums colliding in the air above. The market's meat seekers, however, are unfazed by the clamor, eyes affixed to the brisket being carved at Bigmista's Barbecue.

By Miles Clements, Special to the Los Angeles Times

July 1, 2010