Consider this post fair warning that The Barbecue Festival, far and away NC’s largest and most porktacular barbecue event, is coming up in October. Be there. Or don’t. With or without you, there will be plenty of people descending on uptown (yes, they actually call it that) Lexington on Saturday, October 24th. In the past [...]
Filed under: Hog Happenings | Tagged: Davidson County, Lexington, Lexington style | 1 Comment »
2419 Guess Road, Durham, NC (2nd location at 2780 Durham Road in Roxboro, NC) 919.286.7447 Website Hours: Mon - Sat 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. “Closed Sundays for Worship & Family.” BBQ Jew’s Grade: C- Porky Says: “Is this hog heaven? No, it tastes like Iowa.” Porkatory Good (tasting) pigs go to heaven when they die, or at least [...]
Filed under: Restaurants & Reviews | Tagged: Durham, Durham County, Gas/electric-cooked, Grade C, Person County, Roxboro | 3 Comments »
[Note: Follow this link-Noble BBQ&A-for an easier to read, .pdf version of the interview.] Jim Noble is a real-deal Charlotte restaurateur with two establishments in the Queen City and three more in the works. Yet, in his heart of hearts, that heart beats for barbecue (It’s kind of a Russian doll thing). He’s Triad born and Triad [...]
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Recently a coupon caught my attention. It offered $2 off a 30 ounce package of Hormel’s Austin Blues Pulled Pork. According to the description on the Hormel website, “This succulent pork shoulder meat is naturally hardwood smoked for six hours. After smoking, it’s finished off with a clear Carolina-style sauce and lightly pulled.” Sounds pretty [...]
Filed under: Porky's Pulpit | Tagged: Faux 'Cue, Outside NC | 4 Comments »
A few days ago my daughter uttered the words every Yankee-fearing father fears. No, not “Alex Rodriguez is my prom date,” as that’s not the kind of Yankee I mean. Plus, the littlest LeSwine is only two years old. But it was just as bad. My daughter said, quite clearly by toddler standards, “I don’t like [...]
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4885 Country Club Road, Winston-Salem, NC 336.760.3457 Website Hours: Mon - Sat 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: A- Porky Says: “Really smoking.” Good Golly, Miss Molly From the vintage metal advertising signs on the walls to the traditional wood-cooked pork to the location just down the street from Vinegar Hill Road (too good to [...]
Filed under: Restaurants & Reviews | Tagged: Forsyth County, Grade A, Lexington style, Winston-Salem, Wood-cooked | 6 Comments »
Last month we reported on a pig named Loopey who was removed from the home of his (human) family due to a ban on swine within Fayetteville’s city limits. The City Council in Fayetteville promised to revisit the issue in early September. True to their word, according to an article in the Fayetteville Observer, on Tuesday night [...]
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Earlier this summer a buddy of mine invited me to join him at a pig pickin’ hosted by his co-worker, Billy Mitchell. I’ve been to quite a few pig pickin’s before but this was my first pig pickin’ hosted by someone I’d never met. And yet it turned out to be one of my favorites. [...]
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