Friday Find

Friday Find: Jimmy Courtney’s BBQ Process

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Jimmy Courtney of Courtney’s BBQ in Clover, SC made this YouTube video explaining his barbecue process. You can read more about Courtney’s BBQ, a Lexington-style barbecue joint which has been open since 1999, in this month’s Charlotte Magazine Barbecue Issue. Hat tip to reader Robert Evans for this video.

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We have had a few people ask us how we cook our bbq, so we wanted to take just a few minutes and walk you through each and every step of our process!

If you have any questions, please feel free to message us or leave them in the comments and we will answer them as quickly as possible!

Friday Find: Barbecue Roadtrip Tips from Tales from the Pit

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While the above photo is from Lexington Barbecue, this podcast episode focuses on the different types of road trips you can take in their native Texas. Still, for those looking to make a trip to Texas, be they casual fans or prospective restaurant owners or those interested in history, there’s some good tips.

Friday Find: Lewis Donald of Sweet Lew’s BBQ on Order/Fire S4E7

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As mentioned in my write up of the 4th Annual Free Range and order/fire Pig Pickin’ a few weeks back, the story of both Lewis Donald as well as Sweet Lew’s BBQ is a great one. I’ll quote myself below but please check out the nearly 25-minut episode above:

In speaking with Lewis over the past few months, I’ve gotten a good sense of his vision for Sweet Lew’s BBQ – to be a community restaurant that is fully integrated with the Belmont neighborhood – but this episode really fleshed it out so much more through the conversation between Lewis and Marc. It’s hard to believe its only been about 5 months now, but Lewis clearly loves being in the Belmont neighborhood and was putting in work to build ties with neighbors starting with the construction of the restaurant last fall. And he’s got more great ideas for the coming months, from his continued practice of hiring teens from the neighborhood to a back-to-school carnival with free haircuts for kids next August. My social work wife was just eating up the backstory and vision, and for good reason because it’s something you don’t always see from a restaurant.

Friday Find: Dr. Howard Conyers on The Trip Podcast

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The Trip interviews Dr. Howard Conyers, a SC native who received an undergraduate degree at North Carolina A&T followed by a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering and materials science from Duke. Thusly, he is a rocket scientist by day and a whole hog barbecue man by night and weekend in his home of New Orleans. Spurred on by some fingers of whiskey, he and podcast host Nathan Thornburg discuss a number of topics, including Conyers’ future plans for a book and documentary on the history of barbecue.  The status of his web series Nourish is still up in the air, from what I gather.

The Trip is a podcast from Roads & Kingdoms, a food, travel, and politics publication which won a James Beard award for publication of the year in 2017. The late Anthony Bourdain was the first and only investor in Roads & Kingdoms, and they partnered on Explore Parts Unknown, the digital home for the Parts Unknown TV show, for which they won a 2018 Primetime Emmy.

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Rocket scientist and barbecue pitmaster Dr. Howard Conyers talks aeroelastic engineering, whole-hog roasting, and how black pitmasters have been written out of the history of barbecue.