4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham, NC 919.401.1979 Website Hours: Mon-Thu 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Fri-Sat 11 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: C- Porky Says: “Nobody loves their Q but my mother, and she could be jivin’ too.” Singing the Low Down, So-So Barbecue Blues If you’ve been reading this site for more than a [...]
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As of a couple of weeks ago, The Pig has opened in Chapel Hill in the old location of The Barbecue Joint at 630 Weaver Dairy Road. We speculated about the possible connection between The Barbecue Joint and The Pig in a previous post. In fact, according to The Pig’s Facebook page, the owner “worked [...]
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Dear Loyal Readers, You recently enlightened me on the topic of BBQ in mall food courts and I once again need to drink from your well of wisdom. When traveling in the Greenville area not too long ago I noticed a Skylight Inn ad on television. As you’d expect, it was a pretty low budget ad, which [...]
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A self-described “Southerner by birth and temperament and appetite,” James Villas has given the people of his native North Carolina many reasons to be proud over the years. His latest cookbook, Pig: King of the Southern Table, is perhaps the most significant reason yet. Tarheels and tarheels at heart will be wowed by Pig’s wide-ranging collection of [...]
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It’s no surprise that when barbecue makes it onto Nightline, the subject matter turns a bit more serious than usual. John T. Edge, director of the Southern Foodways Alliance, is featured in a recent segment on the show discussing how barbecue culture may present an opportunity to address racism in America. He makes a pretty good [...]
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511 Highway 17 North, Holly Ridge, NC 910.329.1708 Website Hours: Tu-Th & Su 6:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fr-Sa 6:30 a.m.-9 p.m. BBQ Jew’s Grade: B- Porky Says: “Decent Beach-B-Q at last.” Palatable Barbecue Near the Beach? Finally! Earlier this summer I took a family vacation to Topsail Beach. Unsurprisingly, I dragged my wife and kids to a barbecue restaurant on [...]
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Charlotte Observer food editor Kathleen Purvis has a nice series of posts up chronicling her recent visits to some Lexington-style barbecue joints. Check out the most recent post about Cook’s BBQ by following this link and then see the other posts (on Port-A-Pit and Keaton’s) from there.
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The weekend is almost here, summer is fading into fall, and it’s the perfect time of year to fire up the grill. Next time you cook out, you might should consider taking a break from burgers and hot dogs. You might should want to cook some barbecue. But you might don’t have a grill large enough for a whole [...]
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumnus Anoop Desai is perhaps best known as the author of an undergraduate honors thesis in American Studies entitled Why Barbecue Matters in the South. The 60-page paper takes a scholarly look at southern culture through the grease-streaked lens of barbecue. “If one examines the Durkheimian paradigm in [...]
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