Posted on April 6, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Whether you are among the masses (bad pun) celebrating your savior’s resurrection or those thanking Yahweh for your people being spared a plague, this weekend is a big one for Christians and Jews alike. Ham has secured its place as the go-to Easter dinner main course for many Christians, but Jews have been slow to [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
After a weekend of visiting with family and more than my fair share of college hoops watching, I have run out of time create original content for Monday. Instead, I present you the following canned, but BBQ Jew-approved article from my good friends the complete strangers at Man Tested Recipes. (As for me, I’m not [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Happy President’s Day! (Now how come we don’t have a Congressmen Day holiday too? It’d sure help the public approval ratings of that side of government.) I sincerely hope you are lucky enough to have today off from work, so that you have sufficient time to shop the mattress sales that make our nation the [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
It’s not everyday that I have an excuse to post a photo like the one below. But Valentine’s Day is as good a day as any–and better than most–to show a little heart. Thanks to Chef-Owner-Budding Cardiac Photographer Sam Suchoff of The Pig in Chapel Hill for the photo. Lord only knows what Sam was up [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
It looks like 6 more weeks of chopped pork in Lexington, even though Miss Charlotte did not see her dip-soaked shadow…
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Posted on January 2, 2012 by Porky LeSwine
Happy New Year readers. I hope the year ahead is full of promises fulfilled and absent any regrets. That said, I do have one regret already this year: I didn’t spend the first day of 2012 in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Why? In a word, barbecue. In two words, free barbecue. According to an article in the [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
The latest item I’ve added to the BBQ Jew store is here just in time for the holidays: a Hebrewific holiday card. Eat your heart out, Hallmark, you couldn’t touch this greeting card if you named MC Hammer your CEO: http://www.zazzle.com/hog_sameach_holiday_card-137983403322988292 Special thanks to Dale Volberg Reed, co-author of Holy Smoke, for her clever “hog sameach” turn [...]
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Posted on November 24, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
Earlier this week I said I’d complete my virtual trip to Wilson by week’s end with a review of Bill Ellis Barbecue. How wrong I was. I’d somehow forgotten about Thanksgiving. Out of respect for the Pilgrims, the Indians and all you hard working turkeys out there, I’ll save the Bill Ellis Barbecue post for next week. [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
At sundown tonight begins Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. This is the most important holy day for most Jews, and is considered a time to atone for one’s sins in the past year. Yom Kippur is an intense holiday, even by Jewish standards, and all that intensity can make a brother from the Tribe quite [...]
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Posted on September 5, 2011 by Porky LeSwine
“We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” – Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court justice, Jewish southerner, and barbecue enthusiast.* In honor of Labor Day, that holiday where we browse mattress sale flyers and mourn the end of the [...]
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