Eater’s How We Eat video series takes a trip to Nashville to talk with Pat Martin of Martin’s Bar-B-Que.
In West Tennessee, whole hog barbecue is a dying art, but pitmaster Pat Martin is working to change the story. How We Eat visits Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint in Nashville this week to learn about the smokey tradition, how it differs from other barbecue methods around the country, and what Martin and his team are doing to preserve the practice.
– BBQ Hub has a peek inside the pit room at Swig & Swine, the new whole hog joint in Summerville, SC
– Speaking of whole hog, looks like Kentucky is getting more whole hog in the form of a monthly event from Red Barn Kitchen BBQ in the Louisville suburb of Lydon
– Want:
Theyyy’re baaaack! We’ve got 6 snap backs back in stock @ https://t.co/yYMbTlb1jr. Get ’em while you can, these guys don’t hang around long. pic.twitter.com/Num9m7Mke9
— Buxton Hall Barbecue (@buxtonhall) January 20, 2017
– Marie, Let’s Eat! stops in B & C Melrose BBQ in Nashville
– Charleston’s getting more barbecue: Wild Hare Barbecue opens in February in the West Ashley neighborhood and will be smoking with an onsite stick burner
– Would love to make the trip to Garland
Meet Matthew Register of @SouthernSmokeNC who’s serving up traditional barbecue and reimagined sides in Garland, NC https://t.co/vbNT8xVV94 pic.twitter.com/q7GlmGJOiD
— Bit & Grain (@bitandgrain) January 18, 2017
– Backyard BBQ Pit is listed on Eater’s 10 Indispensable Durham Restaurants
– Also from Eater Charleston, Fiery Ron’s Home Team BBQ makes the winter edition of the Essential 38
– Gotta say, I know pretty much nothing about East Texas-style barbecue which is primarily “ribs and links” joints
Rural East Texas-style barbecue is hanging on, for now. A visit to Caroline’s in Kountze. https://t.co/JV4RjOi9KL
— J.C. Reid (@jcreidtx) January 14, 2017
– Which is not actually too dissimilar from Chicago-style, whose “holy trinity’ is ribs, rib tips, and hot links
Chicago: a bonafide BBQ town. Learn how the South Side cemented the city’s legacy: https://t.co/EOLipOdBEb pic.twitter.com/GLGScONLZD
— First We Feast (@firstwefeast) January 16, 2017
– Marie, Let’s Eat! tries Lil’ Choo Choo BBQ in the Tennessee capital
– Clark’s Barbecue is reviewed by the Greensboro News & Record’s Go Triad blog (our review here)
– Charlotte-based food truck OooWee BBQ will be opening a brick and mortar location in downtown Pineville
– Want to turn barbecue into a breakfast item? Put an egg on it, according to BBQ Hub.
– The barbecue’s not great (our review here), but that shrimp burger is legit
There’s a tidal pull to Big Oak Drive-In & Bar-B-Q in Salter Path. Blame the shrimpburger. https://t.co/xonUuVMwCH pic.twitter.com/ILU8fvg1ZI
— Our State Magazine (@ourstatemag) January 15, 2017
– A few more stops in the Carolina’s for Grant: Stephenson’s Bar-B-Q in Willow Spring, Skylight Inn in Ayden, and Sweatman’s Bar-B-Que down in Holly Hill, SC
– Robert Moss has an introduction to Georgia BBQ to kickoff Georgia BBQ Week, which Grant will surely love
– Coming to West Nashville soon from Pitmaster Pat Martin
Martin’s Bar-B-Que pitmaster Pat Martin is bringing a new fast food concept to West Nashville next spring https://t.co/r4CyfgpUO9
— Eater Nashville (@EaterNashville) November 24, 2016
– Daniel Vaughn of TMBBQ muses on a couple of easy rules for barbecue line etiquette
– From last month, Destination BBQ has an interview with Daniel Doyle of Poogan’s Smokehouse in Charleston
– The highly-anticipated Scott’s BBQ has broken ground at its Charleston location
– John Shelton Reed has a pretty out there barbecue theory on why Donald Trump carried the state of NC and I’ll just let him have at it
The latest, he told me the other day, was Hillary Clinton’s choice of a barbecue stop in Charlotte at the end of the presidential campaign. She and President Obama ate at the Midwood Smokehouse. It has a varied and upscale menu, but it is not a traditional barbecue eatery. Meanwhile, Donald Trump was buying one of those $3.50 barbecue sandwiches at Stamey’s in Greensboro.
“Maybe Clinton’s choice sold in Charlotte,” Reed said, “but the rest of the state was thinking Drumpf was eating at a real North Carolina barbecue stop, a big reason he won and she lost.