See below for an unpaid (unfortunately) advertorial, which is excerpted from an email I received earlier this week. (The content is not directly barbecue-related but I hope it interests some of you.) Then keep reading for my snide remarks. I’m writing from Emmy-nominated production company, Magical Elves (Project Runway and Top Chef). We are casting a new [...]
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled pork programming to wish you a happy March Madness. If there is one thing we at BBQJew.com love more than barbecue, it’s college hoops. Lucky for us, the ACC Tournament is underway so life is good. Or bad, if the team you root for has already lost or wears baby blue… [...]
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This cartoon by Leigh Rubin is worth a chuckle.
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Okay, admittedly there is a pretty tenuous connection between this vintage Tom & Jerry cartoon and North Carolina barbecue. And though the short is called “Barbecue Brawl,” “Cook Out Brawl” would be more appropriate. There is no pig and certainly no slow cooking taking place. Still, what’s not to love about Tom & Jerry? Plus, it’s a relief [...]
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Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of our first post. Just a month before our first post, the Rib Rabbi and I came up with the idea for the site over a plate of barbecue. From these humble beginnings, BBQJew.com has risen to become perhaps the nation’s premier barbecue website written by two Jews who [...]
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Barbecue reviewers–myself included–almost always feel the need to assign some sort of rating to each joint they review. Alas, ten or so hours of slow-cooking pig gets boiled down to one simple letter, word or symbol. Today’s post takes a look at the different barbecue rating systems we’ve come across. Here’s the universe of NC [...]
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