– Congrats to chef/pit master Elliott Moss on his James Beard nomination for Best Chef: Southeast
– Could he win it like Aaron Franklin did two years ago?
– Marie, Let’s Eat! (the blog) turned 7 so they counted down the best barbecue in East Tennessee since they moved there last year
Today our blog turns seven years old. To celebrate, a look at our favorite East TN #BBQ … so far! https://t.co/D8UJxjw8jp pic.twitter.com/LpFvH3CvQx
— Grant Goggans (@MarieLetsEat) February 20, 2017
– Thrillist has a list of the most iconic restaurants in every state (and DC), which includes barbecue restaurants for NC and SC both
– Though Kathleen Purvis from the Charlotte Observer thinks maybe they should have looked past barbecue restaurants for each state
– Nice shot:
Awesome pic from my friend Simon Flores ! #BBQLife pic.twitter.com/qPv9IV0cDw
— Danielle – Diva Q® (@DivaQBBQ) February 16, 2017
– Barbecue (the documentary film) will be the very first film premiering at SXSW
-The True Cue guys are at it again, trying to make the fourth Monday in February a new barbecue-related NC holiday
But Reed and Levine also educate us about the connection between politics and barbecue. Their search for such connections took them all the way back to late February of 1766 when “the Royal Governor of North Carolina, William Tryon, attempted to win the New Hanover militia’s good will by treating them to a barbecue. He did not succeed: citizens of Wilmington threw the barbecued ox in the river and poured out the beer. (This was not an early expression of North Carolinians’ preference for pork; they were upset about the Stamp Act.)”
Reed and Levine explain that this “expression” of discontent with British authority came seven years before “the Boston Tea Party of 1773, when some rowdy New Englanders threw boxes of tea in Boston harbor to protest a British tax.”
– From BBQ Hub
From @mossr, the story of Augusta GA’s two long-forgotten 19th century African-American BBQ cooks https://t.co/22jViSqsdo
— BBQ Hub (@thebbqhub) February 16, 2017