It’s Memorial Day again, the official start of grilling and barbecuing season. (If you don’t know the difference between these two things then you should be ashamed and should do some remedial reading.) Last year we posted simple directions for barbecue that anyone with a basic charcoal grill and some time can follow. The directions work [...]
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I’ve been pondering ethical eating a bit, as rabbis are wont to do. Translation: I’ve been reading Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. In an otherwise innocuous section on the loss of local food culture and food miles, Kingsolver shoots off this salvo: Certainly, we still have regional specialties, but the Carolina barbecue will almost certainly have California [...]
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Lord, forgive me for I have sinned. Consider this post a confession more than a review. I was flying from the east coast to the left coast and had a layover at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) airport. As I walked from one gate to another, I spotted a Dickey’s Barbecue Pit. ”What a coincidence,” I [...]
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It’s no surprise that North Carolina has multiple art museums, history museums and children’s museums. Heck, we even have the Country Doctor Museum, not to be confused with the Mint Hill Country Doctor’s Museum, as well as the Railroad Museum, the Textile Heritage Museum, the Mountain Farm Museum, and the Scottish Tartans Museum. Our state also features the Presidential Culinary [...]
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Walking into a complete stranger’s backyard and enjoying fine home-smoked pork is a tough assignment, but somebody has to do it. And we are those somebodies. James Curle, savvy man that he is, regularly reads this here blog and thought he’d throw an invite our way to his sixth annual Curlefest. Porky and I, devoted [...]
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Shocking (if not all that surprising) news from the nation’s largest barbecue festival. “Apparently, you could get a little more than pork shoulder in one tent at the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest,” reads the first sentence of a recent article in The Commercial Appeal. Three members of the Shotwell Smokers cooking team [...]
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As summer beckons yet again, it’s the perfect time to read this article from Garden & Gun magazine, in case you missed it last year when it was published. It’s one of the best written articles I’ve seen in terms of capturing the spirit of NC’s barbecue culture, and the accompanying photo gallery is outstanding. [...]
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Looking for something porktastic to do this weekend? Head on down I-85 to Salisbury, one of NC’s most important BBQ towns, for their annual barbecue festival, which is part of the broader Salisbury Cultural Arts Festival. The barbecue portion of the event is highlighted by a cooking competition, with competitors’ barbecue available for tasting. As the [...]
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81 South Elliott Road, Chapel Hill, NC 919.968.1983 Website Hours: Sun-Sat 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: C- Porky Says: “Whole Foods serves BBQ?!” There’s a Whole Fool Born Every Minute I hope you are seated as you read this next sentence. Whole Foods serves its own, house-cooked barbecue. And I actually worked up the [...]
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