– John T. Edge and Joe Kwon (cellist for The Avett Brothers and also raised in High Point like the Barbecue Bros), take in 15 of the Korean and Korean-inspired restaurants in northern Atlanta, including Heirloom Market Bar-B-Que (who we reviewed earlier this week)
– Texas BBQ Posse: More evidence that Lockhart has lost its barbecue magic
– The Elements of Barbecue Sauce has this little tidbit from Chip Stamey, which is similar to my feelings on the matter:
“Everyone makes a big deal about ketchup,” he says “But it’s really a mild thing. [Our sauce has] black pepper, red pepper, a little bit of sugar, and that’s it.”
– Ugh, not another one of these lists again, compiled according to some random set of arbitrary criteria. In this case it is:
To determine which states are the most barbecue crazed in America we used five sets of data…
- Barbecue restaurants per capita (source: Yellow Pages)
- Facebook interest in barbecue (source: Facebook)
- Percentage of restaurants that are barbecue (source: Yellow Pages)
- Google searches for “barbecue” (source: Google Trends)
- Barbecue accessory stores and charcoal producers (Yellow Pages)
– Johnny Fugitt (aka barbecuerankings) gets interviewed by Philly.com
Nationally, “there are also a number of famous or historic places that I wasn’t impressed with, so they’ll be left off the list. I’m going to make plenty of people mad!’ he said.
– Well this was a nice surprise:
Thanks @tupelohoneycafe! pic.twitter.com/SvEGWZmfKm
— Barbecue Bros (@BarbecueBros)
– Did you know? Via The Great NC BBQ Map, who had their launch party this past Sunday. We’ll have some photos from the event on Friday
– Speaking of which, a sneak peek of the map which has begun shipping to Kickstarter backers