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My new year’s resolution: I will finally do pork steak’s in my backyard. Mark my word. Now, just to find a local grocery or butcher shop that has them or will cut them for me. -Monk
Native News
Congrats to Jon G’s Barbecue on their receipt of this award from Hometown Heroes of Union County
Three barbecue joints – Midwood Smokehouse, Sweet Lew’s BBQ, and Noble Smoke – make Charlotte Magazine’s 50 best restaurants in Charlotte list
Highlands Smokehouse has new ownership, and they aim to bring a beer garden vibe to the barbecue restaurant
Bib’s Downtown in Winston-Salem was the latest casualty of the pandemic right before the new year
Sweet Lew’s BBQ is the one barbecue joint on the list, but mmmm…pork and chicken skins
Apple City BBQ in Taylorsville introduces a few new menu items for 2021 that have a local bent to them: their hot links will be sourced from Chapman Cattle Company in Alexander County and their grits will be stone ground the old fashioned way at Linney’s Water Mill
Non-Native News
RIP to Mike Mills of 17th Street Barbecue, simply known as “The Legend”
So this happened
…which led to Texas Monthly’s Daniel Vaughn attempting to recreate
Donnie Harris Sr of Pack Jack Barbecue in Sebastapol has been smoking for 40 years
Ribs n Reds is NC-born Chef Bryce Shuman’s pivot to barbecue
Kevin’s BBQ Joints with a couple of recent posts about the knives and sharpeners that barbecue joints use
5 lb barbecue cake
LOL