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“The Science of BBQ” (which has been floating around the past week or so) takes a look at barbecuing/smoking from a scientific perspective. The video interviews Aaron Franklin, and thus it focuses on Texas barbecue and specifically brisket, but I believe the science of smoking would be applicable to pork as well. The True ‘Cue guys even get a shout out.

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Fire Smoke & Flavor BBQ Tour with Michael & Bryan Voltaggio: North Carolina

The Voltaggio bros stop by Wilber’s in Goldsboro as part of a barbecue tour sponsored by Williams-Sonoma. Speaking of which…

Hey, Restoration Hardware/Crate and Barrel/Target/whoever, how about you fund the Barbecue Bros official barbecue road trip? It’ll be super awesome, we promise.

-Monk

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(via New Film Documents Alabama Barbecue)

Courtesy of the Southern Foodways Alliance, here’s a short video on Archibald’s, a joint that I’ve never been to but according to rlreevesjr is his ”last meal on earth joint”

We’re pleased to share our newest short film, Archibald’s, made by Wes Wages of Armosa Films. Head to Northport, Alabama, where you’ll meet George Archibald Jr., his sister Paulette Washington, and her son Woodrow Washington. Their family has been in the barbecue business since 1962. The tiny establishment just a stone’s throw from Tuscaloosa is famous in Alabama and beyond for its pit-smoked ribs and sliced pork butt.

If you’d like to learn more, check out our oral history with George Archibald Jr., part of the Alabama leg of our Southern BBQ Trail.

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So about this “Serious Eats Guide to Barbecue Styles: North Carolina” video…

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So about this “Serious Eats Guide to Barbecue Styles: North Carolina” video…

  • Sponsored by Arby’s Smokehouse Brisket sandwich. This is clearly a tone-setter for how fantastically well this video is going to go.
  • On comes Ed Levine, the founder of Serious Eats, who obviously read about the differences in eastern and western NC barbecue about 2 minutes before he was on camera. CLEARLY he has no idea what he is talking about. Also, has he ever received media training? His crazy hand and eye movements distract from his lack of barbecue knowledge, and that’s saying a lot.
  • Then, they bring on John Stage, whose original Dinosaur Barbecue was originally from the barbecue hotbed of Syracuse, New Freaking York, to talk about NC barbecue. He even says at 0:52 he won’t speak for the rest of North Carolina…UH YEA YOU THINK? Hey Serious Eats/Arby’s, novel idea: how about you get an actual pitmaster from NC to actually talk intelligently about NC barbecue.
  • John then begins to talk about how he loves sauce with barbecue, which is not in any way traditional to NC. Sure, we have our table sauces or dips but nothing like the thick sauce they slather on at 1:10.ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS?!?!
  • At 1:29, they show several seconds of brisket being sliced. A brisket. Being sliced. VERY RELEVANT TO A DISCUSSION ON NC BARBECUE.
  • Finally, they wrap up this crapshow of a video with yet another ad for Arby’s Smokehouse Brisket sandwich. OH THAT’S JUST A PERFECT WAY TO GO OUT.

If you saw that and were worried that they wouldn’t cover your favorite style of barbecue, well worry no more. They have similarly crappy videos of NYC pitmasters talking about barbecue from South Carolina, Texas, Memphis, Chicago (huh?), and Kansas City. THANKS, SERIOUS EATS.

-Monk

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