Linkdown: 9/27/17

– The Whole Hog Barbecue Championship is this weekend in Raleigh (along with the Wide Open Bluegrass Festival)

More coverage from HuffPost

– Marie, Let’s Eat! explores south central Kentucky barbecue; one of the two joints is in the town of Tompkinville, which may have more barbecue joints per capita than Lexington, NC (we even get a brief shoutout!)

– Some photos taken immediately after the fire at Franklin Barbecue

– For the next time you have leftovers after smoking

– Midwood Smokehouse’s burger made of chuck and brisket (and topped with a slice of brisket for an extra $2) makes Charlotte Magazine’s list of best burgers in the city

– Even Phoenix is getting in on the barbecue journalism; their new barbecue column “Smoke Rings” just started

– A couple of barbecue joints on this list – Bar-B-Q King and The Improper Pig

Linkdown: 9/20/17

– The Port City Ribfest moves from Wilmington to Carolina Beach this November

– It’s no surprise that barbecue is North Carolina’s iconic dish according to Flavored Nation; Missouri is the only other state they list with barbecue as its iconic dish

– Charleston is one of the best food towns in the south, in part because of their barbecue restaurants

– A Washington Post travelogue to Chapel Hill includes a visit to The Pig for lunch

Gail goes with a nifty riff on North Carolina-style barbecue, a salad topped with tender chunks of Vietnamese pork cheek and crispy, dried shrimp. Ewan has a more traditional heaping plate of Eastern Carolina-style pulled pork with cider-vinegar sauce. On counsel of the affable guy behind the counter, I order a fried Bologna sandwich, which has about as much in common with my childhood memories of this luncheon meat as Spam does with chateaubriand.

– A review of Daddy Bob’s Barbeque, a promising-sounding truck in Raleigh that smokes shoulders over a mix of hickory, apple, and pecan and serves with an eastern vinegar sauce

– A group of Sampsonians will be trying to save Lewis Barbecue, which closed Labor Day weekend

Art’s Barbecue & Deli gets a short profile in Charlotte Five

– Just a reminder:

 

Linkdown: 5/3/17

– Thanks to Feedspot for including us on this list of best barbecue blogs!

– Registration for NC State’s Barbecue Camp is now open (hint hint, Mrs Monk)

– The details on John Mueller’s new barbecue food truck, Black Box Barbecue

– The latest barbecue roadtrip book is from Matt Moore, a genre I happen to love

– Not a good look for the Garner Smithfield’s Chicken ‘N Bar-B-Q, whose employees sang “F— Tha Police” at some local police officers

– Coincidence?

Linkdown: 4/12/17

– Robert Moss on “The Tyranny of Texas Barbecue”

– …and TMBBQ with the retort; claims that Moss is “jealous of neighbor’s popularity”

– The 15 pitmasters for the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party have been announced; Sam Jones and Rodney Scott represent the Carolinas

– Cuegrass ’17 takes over Davie Street in front of the Pit this Saturday for a day of barbecue, beer, and bluegrass

– Henry’s Smokehouse and the Greenville BBQ Trail Tour are in this Charlotte Five article on what to do in the SC town about 1hr 40 minutes away from Charlotte

– BBQ Hub also has a Charleston barbecue tour for the burgeoning barbecue capital

– Marie, Let’s Eat! is pleasantly surprised by some barbecue in Pigeon Forge from Bennett’s Pit Bar-B-Que

– The Smoking Ho went to the Houston BBQ Festival last weekend and took some great photos

– Wayne Mueller BBQ is eyeing a Houston-area location for expansion

– Don’t forget about the fried chicken