The Beer, Bourbon, and BBQ Festival is more about beer and bourbon than bbq but we’ll have a few photos up from it next week.
-Monk
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Linkdown: 3/19/14
– USA Today did a short profile on Bill Spoon’s in Charlotte with some interesting insight on Charlotte from a local historian
“The east/west split dates back to when there were very few people in the mountains, so east really means east of Raleigh where the coastal plains start and west the Piedmont foothills,” said Tom Hanchett, a historian at the city’s Levine Museum of the New South and expert on Southern food, who joined me for lunch. “Charlotte is not really in either part, it’s a city of newcomers and we have other people’s barbecue. One of our most popular restaurants is Georgia-style and we have a lot of Latino and even Vietnamese barbecue, so having Bill Spoon’s here is very special. It’s eastern, whole hog with some hot pepper in the vinegar.”
– The Great North Alabama BBQ Quest (via rlreevesjr)
– South Carolina’s BBQ cook-off season starts this weekend (via bbqboard)
– If you happened to be at 12 Bones in Asheville yesterday, you may have seen a Travel Channel crew filming at the restaurant to cover the “Hogzilla” sandwich, “a bacon, bratwurst and pulled pork sandwich which Garden and Gun magazine named one of the top in the country,” for an upcoming show “Sandwich Paradise”
– Q 4 Fun has a review of Sauceman’s BBQ
– This month’s Carolina ‘Cue in Our State Magazine is Little Pigs in Asheville
Hence, Little Pigs BBQ was actually just one of more than a hundred Little Pigs Barbecue of America franchises. “Those guys were good business guys but they didn’t know food,” Joe says. Back in the ’60s, the concept of fast food was just coming into its own. McDonald’s got its start in the ’40s as a barbecue restaurant, but switched over to burgers because the slow process of making barbecue was hard to replicate on a national scale. Little Pigs Barbecue of America only turned a profit for one year, 1963, and by 1967, the franchise was bankrupt. Barbecue was too hard to homogenize.
But Joe kept his restaurant open. He started doing things his own way. He’d already been offering barbecue sandwiches at a buy-one-get-one-free deal, and the line was out the door on the first day. If customers couldn’t make it to Little Pigs, Joe would bring his food to them.
– Want this so hard
LOVE IT! RT @bgracely: Thanks @BourbonandBoots #BBQ #NC pic.twitter.com/cWK3wGuZT9
— @LuellasBBQ (@LuellasBBQ)
Rodney Scott, the famed barbecue pitmaster from Hemingway, SC, is taking his show on the road. After a residency at Nick’s Bar-B-Q on King Street in Charleston, SC, on December 22, 2013, he’ll tour the South from January 20 until February 4, 2014, bringing honest whole hog barbecue to a wide swath of the region.
Why the tour? Two days before Thanksgiving, Rodney’s pit house went up in flames. Undaunted, Rodney quickly put temporary pits in place, stoked the burn barrels again, and flipped more splayed hogs onto the grates. Now, two weeks later, he is ready to plan the rebuild.
On the Rodney in Exile BBQ Tour, Fatback will serve as host for Rodney. The members of the Fatback Collective encourage you to join them in fellowship and ask you to support this bootstrap effort to rebuild a totemic barbecue joint, one sandwich at a time.
The full tour schedule with participating chefs and cities follows:
Rodney in Exile BBQ Tour: Fatback Grand Trail
December 22, 2013: Charleston, SC—John Haire at Nick’s Bar-B-Q
January 20, 2014: Atlanta, GA – Angie Mosier and Kevin Gillespie at Gunshow
January 23, 2014: Nashville, TN – Sean Brock and Patrick Martin at Husk Nashville
January 27, 2014: Oxford, MS – John Currence and John T Edge at Lamar Lounge
January 29, 2014: New Orleans, LA – Donald Link, Ryan Prewitt, and Stephen Stryjewski at Cochon
February 1, 2014: Birmingham, AL – Drew Robinson and Nicholas Pihakis at Jim N Nick’s Bar-B-Q
February 4, 2014: Charleston, SC – Sean Brock, Sam Jones, and Special Guests across from McCrady’s
For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact:
Melany Mullens at melany@polishedpigmedia.com 540.314.8089
Michelle Charak at michelle@polishedpigmedia.com 917.463.3833
Hmm, I might have to see if I can make the second Charleston stop on Tuesday, February 4…
-Monk
Christmas present from Mrs. Monk – a NC barbecue t-shirt and koozie! From House of Swank Clothing out of Raleigh, NC who have a few more barbecue themed items over at their site.
What barbecue-related items did you get for Christmas? Feel free to share in the comments.