Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “More Smoking and Grilling Stories”
Article and Photos by Mark Masker This is Part 1 of a two-part special on Meatopia and Oakland’s Eat Real Festival. You can read Part 2 on the Burn! Blog here. “Call me tonight if you can.” Doug Keiles’ mysterious Facebook message greeted me one Sunday afternoon a few weeks ago. I thought it meant a reading of the riot …
By Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach “The Meating Place of Spice and Smoke” The first outdoor cook to use chile peppers during a barbecue was Jaguar Claw, a somewhat hen-pecked paleo-Native American who lived in the Amazon Basin about 20,000 years ago. He had dispatched his prey with his spear, had butchered the world’s largest rodent with his new flint …
Collected by Dave DeWitt Note: Most hundred-year-old (or more) descriptions of Thanksgiving are insufferably sappy, but thanks to the hard-working scanners at Google Books, I was able to cobble (or gobble) together some suggestions for making this holiday a little more interesting than usual. How about a shooting match with live targets? A Perfect Thanksgiving Diversion, 1897 Another of the …
Story and Photos by Dave DeWitt Jim Heywood, head judge of the 17th annual Best in the West Rib Cookoff, invited me and Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe, to be judges at this outdoor event that is held on the streets of Sparks, Nevada, next to the John Ascuaga’s Nugget casino and hotel. It was a five-day extravaganza held over the …
by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach Excerpted from The Barbecue Inferno (Ten Speed Press, 2001) Since everything we love to ingest is bad for us these days, it should come as no surprise that the “experts” are busy linking grilling and smoking to cancer. Grilling and smoking pollute the air (is that an odor or a fragrance?), so we outdoor …
