Monk: If I’m ever in Houston anytime soon, Blood Bros is going to be at the top of my list. Pitmaster Quy Hoang shows Eater’s Smoke Point the ropes of their operation.
Description: At Houston-area barbecue joint Blood Bros, pitmaster Quy Hoang combines his love for Texas barbecue with Asian influences to make gochujang ribs, smoked char siu pork belly fried bao buns, brisket burnt end steam buns, Thai red curry and chili sausage, and more.
Campbell won the inaugural BBQ Bowl against Gardner-Webb this past Saturday, pulling ahead late in the fourth quarter after recovering a muffed punt before scoring the go-ahead touchdown. They would go on to tack on another touchdown making the final score 42-28.
While the initial image of the trophy (which was likely a mockup instead of the real trophy) roused the ire of Iowa fans for allegedly being a copy of the Floyd of Rosedale trophy between Iowa and Minnesota, it turns out that the actual trophy was something much more cuddly.
Initial mockup:
Floyd of Rosedale trophy:
Actual trophy:
Back to barbecue matters…after the game the teams were treated to a post-game dinner of Red Bridges Barbecue as a result of Gardner-Webb losing the barbecue bet. Better than the White Swan that would have been served had Campbell lost.
More details of the game here
The NC State Fair starts this week
Clark’s Barbecue in Kernersville was the last stop on John Tanner’s barbecue tour of the piedmont
At Mac’s Speed Shop, beef ribs and bacon-wrapped jalapenos are two of the prep-intensive items that are being taken off the menu for now
Whole-hog continues to catch on in Texas
Tales from the Pits tries to guess the next Texas Monthly Top 50; the list is published later this month
Roegels is expanding to Katy
Hecho in Texas is a Cameron, TX joint trying to feed its locals the best way they know how
Blood Bros. BBQ in Bellaire, TX , Eem in Portland, and Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna, AR make The New York Times’ Restaurant List
In the latest sign that we’re slowly coming out of this pandemic, the BBQ Fest on the Neuse, “home to the largest whole hog cook-off in the world”, returns this May to Kinston, NC. This is on top of Governor Cooper announcing yesterday that as of this Friday restaurants can open at 75% capacity indoors and 100% outdoors. While this doesn’t mean that everything going’s to snap right back to how it was, things are definitely trending upward.
As for the BBQ Fest on the Neuse, the event hopes to be back in downtown Kinston but if they aren’t able to procure that permit they will go to the Lenoir County Fairgrounds. The barbecue competition will have less competitors, there will be less vendors, and the amount of bands and stages will also be smaller. Despite all this, hopes are high for “Kinston-Lenoir County’s signature event.
Says Joe Hargitt, Visit Kinston Chairman: “We want the overall feel to be a coming out party, after COVID, for the city of Kinston.”
Charlotte-based Mac’s Speed Shop eyes growth across the Southeast in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Florida
Jon G’s has a new convert
Houston-based Blood Brothers BBQ, which fuses Asian flavors with central Texas barbecue, will open a location at the upcoming Resorts World casino on the Las Vegas strip in May
Ahead of his upcoming book Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (out April 27 on UNC Press), Adrian Miller shares a few insights with Daniel Vaughn on his barbecue travels
Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ is on Eater’s list of noteworthy new cookbooks
More on that beer collab between La Barbecue and Zilker Brewing
Get brisket tips from Evan LeRoy; a video is available for Patreon members
Steve Raichlen has some brisket tips of his own over at Barbecue Bible
…and so does Jess Pryles. Must be something in the water.
Tips on fire maintenance
Sounds like my kind of place:
Robert Sietsema tries the brisket sandwich at four new NYC-area barbecue joints: Virgil’s Real Barbecue, John Brown BBQ, Izzy’s BBQ Smokehouse, and Hudson Smokehouse
Rest In Peace to Dorothy King of Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland
The Old Hampton Store & Barbeque is part barbecue joint, part general store, and part music venue.
John Tanner’s BBQ Blog really batted for the proverbial Barbecue Bros cycle of NC barbecue in the Charlotte area with Lexington Barbecue, Noble Smoke, Sweet Lew’s BBQ, and Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge
Houston’s Blood Brothers BBQ makes the Smithsonian Magazine
Last weekend’s 36th Annual Barbecue Festival sounds like it was a success
The 90th Mallard Creek Barbecue was heavy on barbecue (as per usual) but light on politicians
Keaton’s BBQ in Cleveland does serve pork barbecue but its really known for its friend chicken that is dipped in Lexington-style barbecue sauce
How three Harvard students enhanced the Kamado Joe cooker with computer modeling
Adrian Miller’s Black Smoke research hits the Richmond area this weekend