With the mainstreaming of barbecue across the country, it’s inevitable that the formerly humble food will finds it way onto menus at a increasingly varied range of establishments. A case in point is Chapel Hill’s landmark gourmet food shop, A Southern Season, which recently made the following announcement about the newest addition to their delicatessen menu: “Authentic, [...]
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Food trucks, a popular concept in large cities like Los Angeles and New York for years, infiltrated North Carolina over the last few years and have really taken off. The combination of low overhead and being able to seek out your customers seems to be a winning formula for food truck operators. Although mobile taco vendors are [...]
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A new barbecue joint in Tulsa, Oklahoma is getting attention for its saucy name: Action Erection Beer & BBQ. According to an article under the clever headline “‘Action Erection’ Restaurant Raising Eyebrows,” the new BBQ place is named after the owner’s like-named construction company. No word yet on whether the barbecue is worth getting excited about. (To bring [...]
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Want a sure sign that barbecue is squarely in the mainstream and spreading across the country’s collective consciousness? Here it is: Yesterday National Public Radio (also known as NPR) aired a story on barbecue (also known as BBQ, barbeque, Bar-B-Q, et al.). I enjoy much of NPR’s reporting, but they tend to be embarrassingly out of touch when it [...]
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Gotta love the “Air-Conditioned” sign, a funny throwback touch. Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending the grand opening of Nelson’s Barbecue, a wood-burning joint just off of I-95 in Lumberton. Nelson’s is named after proprietor Andy Price’s dad, and the grand opening was a family affair, with his mom and dad, wife and kids in [...]
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Some say the customer is always right. Others say the customer is a “bitch.” At least that was the case recently for the Atlanta barbecue restaurant with the inauspicious name Boners (and with a solidly sexist website to boot). A dissatisfied customer’s negative Yelp.com review led to a tirade from the restaurants owner that has [...]
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A big tip of the snout to Eric “Cracklin’s” Calhoun for sending along a link to the below picture of a map from the Library of Congress archives. The 1884 map shows the nicknames of the United States in spectacular form. It is truly an impressive lesson in gehography.
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Within the last couple of weeks I’ve learned of three “new” restaurants serving barbecue. It turns out only one of these places is actually new, but they were all new to me so perhaps they’ll be new to you too… 1) The venerable Durham institution Fishmonger’s, in business for nearly 30 years as a seafood market [...]
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Many media outlets feature entertaining year end top 10 lists and other wrap-ups of the past year. Not this one. Rather than enthralling you, loyal readers, with a witty and insightful take on 2011′s top barbecue news, I am taking a different approach. I am offering you the opportunity to read short capsules of the [...]
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