Bonus linkdown? Bonus linkdown!
– You have until Friday to eat at the original Clyde Cooper’s location in Raleigh before it moves a few blocks away onto Wilmington Street the second week in April (via bbqboard)
– Colbert Pulled Pork Rant Pulled Too Hard, says Esquire’s Eat Like a Man Blog:
This seems a bit much. On the one hand, I applaud Colbert for taking on a sacred cow, or rather a sacred pig. They can’t say the guy doesn’t have balls. And he’s right in a way. It’s true that a lot of Carolina barbecue, not just in North Carolina but also in Colbert’s home state of South Carolina, is mediocre at best, and sometimes almost as bad as he makes it out to be. But the best of it is transporting, unique, and irreplaceable. No barbecue tradition in America varies so much from good to bad. I just came back from Raleigh and Durham and experienced both. At Cooper’s, I had a finely chopped barbecue sandwich that was simultaneously soft and somehow also firm, tightly packed but giving up every bite without resistance. It was porky, and a little smoky, and its vinegar just set off its fat. It was basically perfect. Later in the day I went to The Pit, one of the state’s best barbecue restaurants, and it was even better. The barbecue was fresher, and even when coarsely chopped, was still tender. Moreover, the vinegar was judiciously spiked with hot pepper, so you got three things on your palate at once: fat, acid, and heat — a kind of holy trinity of American meat.
– By the looks of this tweet, it appears Our State Magazine has hired a new barbecue writer
RT @elizahudson: @ourstatemag‘s new BBQ writer, @DHWallace on @BibsDowntown‘s outlaw stye: “It’s barbecue on a motorcyle.” Gimme.
— Our State Magazine (@ourstatemag)
– As of 9:24am this morning, The Great NC BBQ Map Kickstarter has been fully funded! Congrats to them!
THAT’S IT!!!! WE DID IT»> Fully funded on @kickstarter!!! Freaking out and jumping with joy, y’all! Thank you all! pic.twitter.com/O7orHFKYVM
— Amanda Aileen (@ncbbqmap)
