SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is full of modern-day cowboys.
But there are also opportunities for rodeo-goers to step back in time.
There are several authentic chuck wagons and cooks, like Buck Reams, who has been cooking Old West-style for nearly three decades.
Buck is also an award-winning Western Swing singer. He played in Red Steagall's band for over 10 years.
"It's all a natural fit," Reams said.
Reams hauls his supplies in an old 1906 John Deere wagon. In the back of the wagon, he's got a compartment for his pots and pans and above, he keeps his ingredients.
"This chuck wagon box hold all your spices, medicine, Bible, snake bite medicine," Reams said.
A cook is always prepared.
Reams' biscuits are made by hand, even down to the stirring.
The temperature of his Dutch oven is measured by hand -- he literally holds his over the top of the coals on the oven. Three seconds means the temp is just right.
It takes about 10 minutes for the perfect biscuit.
"It takes a lot of figuring out. You burn a lot of stuff before you get it right," Reams said.
These days he gets it right.
His Dutch oven peach cobbler is just as tasty.
Reams has cooked for one to 1,000 people and said outdoor cooking, Old West-style attracts folks because of nostalgia and "the romance."