Linkdown: 11/20/19

Robert Jacob Lerma to the rescue: You may have heard that Ryan Cooper (co-founder of The Smoke Sheet aka @BBQTourist) has fallen ill recently, and Lerma is coordinating donations to help pay for medical bills if you are so inclined.

Wyatt’s Barbecue is bringing more whole hog barbecue to downtown Raleigh from the barbecue man behind Picnic, Wyatt Dickson

Chef Jake Wood of Plates Neighborhood Kitchen is also opening a new barbecue restaurant in Raleigh next year, Lawrence BBQ

The best barbecue in DC

Breakfast at barbecue joints in the Carolinas is a little different than the newer Texas trend of barbecue for breakfast

Hometown Bar-B-Que is doing a pretty dang good pastrami, apparently

Some details on Dr. Howard Conyers’ forthcoming barbecue book

10 years on the Texas barbecue trail: The Texas BBQ Posse looks back

Friday Find: The Smoke Sheet on Kevin’s BBQ Joints Podcast

Sean Ludwig (aka NYC BBQ) and Ryan Cooper (aka BBQ Tourist), the guys behind The Smoke Sheet weekly barbecue newsletter (and friends of the blog), join Kevin to discuss their barbecue origins as well as their newsletter. They then wrap up by each giving recommendations in NYC as well as Houston, where Ryan has been making a point to travel this year to explore the barecue scene.

In this episode I chat with Sean Ludwig & Ryan Cooper from The Smoke Sheet, the definitive weekly BBQ newsletter. We discuss all of the great content that comes into your email box every Wednesday as well as Sean and Ryan’s background in terms of BBQ and how they cover the world of barbecue by visiting BBQ joints and BBQ events across the US. We end with some restaurants recommendations in the regions they cover extensively.

Friday Find: The Smoke Sheet on the Man Meat BBQ Podcast

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The two co-founders of The Smokesheet, BBQ Tourist and NYC BBQ, joined the Man Meat BBQ podcast to discuss their origin story with barbecue and also assemble their perfect plate of barbecue out of their favorite barbecue bites from across the US.

There is a little bit of cussing at the top, so be warned. Also be warned that the host Mike could have used a cough button. Still, a pretty good conversation between three barbecue enthusiasts.