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I Should Have Listened To The Inner Voice!

Sometimes I hear voices!

There’s a voice in my head that I hear when I’m thinking about eating at a BBQ restaurant. I call it the BBQ Force. It steers me away from horrible dining experiences. Yesterday was one of those times when the Force spoke to me. I should have listened.

I pulled into

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Mission Impossible: Repurpose The McRib

“Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to repurpose the incredibily popular McRib that has reappeared in restaurants across the Country. As always, should any member of the BBQ Grail Force become incompassitated or captured the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions…”

There may not be a fast food item

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Just What Do You Expect Me To Do With Broccoli & Pomegranate?

Take four random ingredients, one fruit, one vegetable, one starch and one protein, and create a whole meal out of them. That’s the challenge that a group of BBQ Blogger friends face each month. This months challenge ingredients were pomegranate, broccoli, focaccia and shrimp. The only real rule we have, amongst ourselves, is the protein

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Another Boring BBQ Restaurant

I’ve driven by Sierra Smokehouse in Auburn, California several times since they opened. As regular readers, of this blog will know, I have a phobia about eating at BBQ restaurants. I just don’t eat in them very often because I’m so easily disappointed with the food they serve. But…

…as I drove past Sierra Smokehouse

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I'm Singing The Blues After Lunch Today

Last week I got a tweet asking if I had ever eaten at “Baby Blues BBQ” in San Francisco. Since I hadn’t, I figured it was as good a time as any to venture over the Bay Bridge with my BBQ Buddy “Landarc” and give it a try. As we drove down Mission we had

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Memphis In May #2: My First Memphis Disappointment

I have to admit when Char-Broil first contacted me to come out to Memphis In May and do some cooking demonstrations one of the first thoughts I had was that someone was going to pay me to fly out and eat at Interstate Bar-B-Q.

For a BBQ enthusiast there are a select group of

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