April 15th, 2009 at 4:25pm |
In case you don’t know, this is Pigs in Space.
BBQ season ‘09 foodnerd-style has officially commenced! In what was surely a personalized message to me from the universe (or Safeway’s marketing dept., whatever) I trekked to the supermarket at 10:00 p.m. to placate a serious Stouffer’s French Bread pizza craving when I happened across a [...]
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July 5th, 2008 at 4:16pm |
That’s right, I made me some PIT BISON! I think this may be a first, since searching “pit bison” returns nothing having to do with food, except for links pointing to yours truly…. It’s the largest mammal native to the US – the original American red meat. And it was grown right here in [...]
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June 27th, 2008 at 9:40pm |
The audio file for my Tuesday June 24 appearance on the Dan Rodricks radio show is available – dl here, or listen to it below. A couple of things occurred to me after listening to the whole thing – I talk way too fast (next time no coffee beforehand), I have a lot less bass [...]
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June 25th, 2008 at 6:50pm |
Today’s digging/redditing session led me to this video of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (henceforth referred to as pRpnSJMcC) on Jimmy Kimmel attempting to talk smack about his barbecue skills:
Like here if player is broken
Kimmel’s cliche, waka-waka zinger aside, I think it’s clear pRpnSJMcC hasn’t barbecued a rib in his life. Actually, that’s [...]
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June 24th, 2008 at 4:51pm |
To borrow the old school eloquence of Martin Payne, that is. Dan Rodricks graciously invited me back on his radio show on 88.1 WYPR today to talk BBQ. Last time was a blast, when we somehow spent a whole hour talking about crab cakes (dl here, or listen to it below). And yet [...]
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June 24th, 2008 at 10:20am |
Despite the myriad uses of the word in modern English and regional squabbling over the topic, the etymology seems to be pretty concrete.
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June 24th, 2008 at 2:45am |
I have to admit that I have been questioning the integrity of my pork rub lately. I’ve been eating A LOT of ribs lately, and the rubs all seem far less flavorful than mine. I can only suspect this is to allow the “pork flavor” to “come through”. I use shame quotes because I generally [...]
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