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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I know it seems like only yesterday that you last had a huge blowout of a chili garlic celebration, but in case you’ve forgotten it’s that time of year again. That’s right, according to the good people of Cholula Hot Sauce, October 24th marks the start of National Chili Garlic Week. Woo hoo, let the chili-garlicky [...]
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This weekend I spent some time doing something I rarely do: actually cooking barbecue instead of just eating it and writing about it. Who was my muse for this barbecue session? Although she remains nameless thus far, my muse was without a doubt my new Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker, which I purchased a few weeks ago. [...]
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One of the more fascinating aspects of barbecue blogging is the number of unsolicited messages I get from folks pushing their (sometimes) barbecue-related products. From BBQ sauce companies to grill stores to cookbook publishers, I get several emails a week seeking to drum up publicity for whatever it is they are selling. I can only imagine [...]
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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year/With the hickory coals smelling/And the pit masters telling you, “Barbecue’s near”/It’s the most wonderful time of the year/It’s the pork-porkiest season of all.” Or at least it could be if you make sure your holiday shopping list includes some of these gifts: Holy Smoke: The Big Book [...]
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Perhaps it was inevitable. I have resisted the Land of Twitter for years because it seems an inherently shallow and useless place. But then it hit me like 140 characters worth of bricks: shallow and useless are essential descriptors of BBQJew.com. With my excuses torn to shreds, I’ve decided to dive headfirst into the Twitter pool dip [...]
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Need I remind you, my fellow BBQ Jews, that Christmas is just a few weeks away? If you are like me (i.e., a Jew who married a wonderful Christian woman who feels the holidays are not complete without a sap-stained tree dropping needles on the floor) or even if you’re not, it’s time to buy your Christmas tree. [...]
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Breaking news from the Fast Food Nation: The McRib returned to McDonald’s locations nationwide yesterday. (And just in time for the election: Republicans make big gains and the McRib is reinstated, not sure what to make of that connection.) Sure, the McRib has it’s defenders, such as one James Pkafke, who writes, “The McRib is like some [...]
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Riddle me this, loyal readers: what do you call someone who splits his time between writing about eating barbecue and writing about not wasting food? Confused? A hypocrite? Maybe even a hero? All three, perhaps, but I just call him The Rib Rabbi. My BBQJew.com co-author The Rib Rabbi moonlights as the author of Wasted Food.com, [...]
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Dear Loyal Readers, You recently enlightened me on the topic of BBQ in mall food courts and I once again need to drink from your well of wisdom. When traveling in the Greenville area not too long ago I noticed a Skylight Inn ad on television. As you’d expect, it was a pretty low budget ad, which [...]
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