With a new year upon us, it is time for me to update the Events page of this website with hog happenings planned for North Carolina in 2012. If you know of a barbecue-related event coming up in the year ahead, especially if the event was not listed last year, please comment on this post or drop [...]
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For those of you in striking distance of Chapel Hill, there’s a good event for a good cause this Saturday, as described by Mr. Page Skelton of Cackalacky, Inc. “Our mighty Cackalacky cookout crew will be teaming up with our “zest friends” from A Southern Season and Fullsteam Brewery for an awesome tailgate party/sampling event this [...]
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Two Triangle-area barbecue events take place this weekend: Hillsborough Hog Day, the classic barbecue festival, cook-off and cultural event, moves up a month from past years in order to beat the heat. The 29th annual event is held in River Park behind the courthouse and features live music, other entertainment, arts and crafts, and lots of chopped pork. [...]
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If you happen to be in Lexington, NC this Saturday please drop by and say hello to your’s truly. Just don’t interrupt me while I’m hard at work. I’ll be among the dozens of lucky folks volunteering at the first annual Lexington BBQ Capital Cook-off, a Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS) sanctioned cooking competition. It will be [...]
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April marks the beginning of the barbecue festival season, which runs through October. The first event of the season was in Newport last weekend, but you have a chance to make it to the 2nd one THIS weekend. Drive on over to Goldsboro for Pig in the Park. The event features live music and other [...]
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It’s getting awfully close to barbecue competition and festival season, so I’ve updated the Events page with all the latest info. If you know of a BBQ-related festival or similar event that I am missing please let me know. See the full list at http://bbqjew.com/events/
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Want to be one of the lucky thousands who gets to eat barbecue while rubbing elbows with desperate politicians just days before the election? Head on down to Charlotte, where the 81st Mallard Creek Barbeque is scheduled for this Thursday starting at 10 a.m. The annual fundraiser is organized by Mallard Creek Presbyterian Church, as [...]
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“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” So goes the famous feminist quote often incorrectly attributed to Gloria Steinem. While women may not need men, and fish may not need bicycles, pigs need both. At least that was the sense on the streets of Lexington on Saturday. Women and men alike participated in the 19th [...]
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