Well, my nightmare scenario has come to fruition. I was wrong. On top of that, I was wrong about food. Worse still, I was wrong about meat. And to top it all off, I was proved wrong by a guy with frosted tips and pinky rings. Chaps Pit Beef was featured on Food Networks’ Diner’s, [...]

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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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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:

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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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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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So last week I noticed a big matzoh display at the supermarket, which got me thinking about Passover Coke. For those of you who don’t know, Passover Coke is special because instead of corn syurp, real sugar is used as the sweetener! The store we were in didn’t have any. After checking several more stores [...]

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