The Jargon Society | Musings. …THE TRUE, ONLY, AND MOST SECRETENTRANCE TO HOG HEAVEN by Jonathan WilliamsI have only eaten at Ridgewood once and it was many years ago. If you have been reading this blog over the last year, you know I have a love for Carolina Barbecue. If you like the stuff, click the […]
The Never Ending and Remarkably Slow Barbecue Tour
Eating barbecue during a heat wave makes sense. Pulled pork sandwiches somehow taste even better when you are already sweaty, perhaps even smelling of wood smoke. This apparently means we should eat a lot of barbecue over the course of the extended forecast (in brief…hot, followed by hotter, followed by Christmas). So the timing was […]
Jim-Jim’s Barbecue: Poor Spelling Doesn’t Affect the Cue
Over Memorial Day weekend near Norris Lake, my wife and I went to a very small Barbecue place called Jim-Jim’s. It would be possible to miss it as you drive by on Tennessee Highway 61 on the way to Big Ridge State Park. Clearly run on a shoestring, the pulled pork sandwiches were really quite […]
Step Three of an Atlanta Barbecue Pilgrimage
Barbecue. Some very smart people, who otherwise might have put their brains to solving the riddle of cancer or the challenges of peace in the Middle East, have committed their lives to cooking it, eating it, analyzing it, comparing it, arguing about it, and waxing nostalgic about it. Memphis tomato-based fanatics square off regularly against North Carolina […]