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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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