Alarming news out of Chapel Hill, where a recent press release notes that a local franchisee has entered into a statewide agreement with Dallas, Texas-based Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. GMW Carolina, Inc. already runs two Dickey’s locations in the Triangle area and plans to open a third soon. The statewide agreement gives GMW the right to [...]
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“Shaq Misses Entire Second Half with Pulled Pork Sandwich” That’s the headline from a recent article in the satirical newspaper The Onion. See the hilarious accompanying photo and full article here.
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My name is Porky LeSwine and I am a barbeholic. Early Symptoms Like most addictions, it all started out innocently enough. I grew up in Orange County not far up the road from Allen & Son. My folks took me there from time to time. Back then it was just a couple of times a [...]
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See below for an unpaid (unfortunately) advertorial, which is excerpted from an email I received earlier this week. (The content is not directly barbecue-related but I hope it interests some of you.) Then keep reading for my snide remarks. I’m writing from Emmy-nominated production company, Magical Elves (Project Runway and Top Chef). We are casting a new [...]
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[Note: Follow this link--Elie BBQ&A--for an easier to read .pdf version of the interview.] When it comes to barbecue, Lolis Eric Elie has a checkered past. It’s not that he wrote a three times weekly column for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans from 1995 to 2009. Or that he is on the staff of the new David [...]
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If you like barbecue and jazz (both southern delicacies for sure, though I prefer the former), you should familiarize yourself with the song, “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue.” It was first composed and recorded by none other than Louis “Brunswick Stewy” Armstrong. According to Allmusic.com, “Struttin’” has been recorded by dozens of artists since Armstrong’s original version under, appropriately enough, both the [...]
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled pork programming to wish you a happy March Madness. If there is one thing we at BBQJew.com love more than barbecue, it’s college hoops. Lucky for us, the ACC Tournament is underway so life is good. Or bad, if the team you root for has already lost or wears baby blue… [...]
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A few recent news items that are worth a mention but not a full post: The Greensboro News & Record mentions the results of a survey ranking the Triad low on how its residents feel about their own well-being. ”Maybe it’s time to drown our sorrows in more barbecue,” offers the article. Sage advice. Maurice’s Gourmet Barbeque, [...]
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