The BBQ lifestyle comes at a price

Gee Todd. At first I thought I was reading a Phillip Marlowe murder mystery then remembered I logged onto the Cookshack Forum.

The vinegar fumes from 10 gallons of simmering sauce will make a person act a little strange. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Tood,the wife/co-cook just had a good friend marry and move fom the coast here, to a small town,Yanceyville ,near Raleigh.

She does work ,daily,in Raleigh.

Seems like he may be in the building trades?

They are good cooks and fishermen.

She does smoking,especially pork and fish,as well as a lot of grilling.

Likes to eat bbq out,whenever possible.

Also, other good dives,diners,etc.



I'll be needing some help with recs for them,as soon as I can narrow down the locale.

Yanceyville

Thanks

Todd's story gives a whole new meaning to "hittin's the sauce" and "home-brew!"

Hey Tom,

If they're moving to Yanceyville, I hope they like small town country living. It's a nice little town and beautiful countryside, but it is COUNTRY.

They're about 75 miles from Raleigh, but only 22 miles from what I think is the best NC BBQ joint(and whose sauce I was trying to duplicate last night), Short Sugars, and 13 miles from Short Sugars Danville VA location.

http://shortsugarsbar-b-q.com/
http://www.choppedonion.com/id43.html

In Raleigh, try Clyde Coopers for real old time cooking, and The Pit is new, fancy, super clean, and trendy, but with one of the oldest pit masters in NC cooking, they manage to overcome these problems and put out some good food.

http://www.clydecooperbbq.com/
http://www.thepit-raleigh.com/
Review: http://hkentcraig.com/BBQ66.html

Tell them to try Kemps Seafood or the NC Seafood Restaurant at the farmers market (both in Raleigh, both owned by the same people, pretty much same menu, but you pay about $2 more at Kemps because the building is nicer) for good seafood, mostly fried. Adjacent(20ft away) to the farmers market seafood restaunt is the Nahunta Pork Center, for all your pork needs. They will sell you a whole hog or any part thereof, and it smells good like a meat market should. I find it best to eat before I go there because I've been known to get a little crazy if I'm exposed to large amounts of pork when I'm hungry.
http://www.nahuntapork.com/

And it's way off timewise, but tell them to plan on going to the Lexington BBQ Festival in the fall.
http://www.barbecuefestival.com/

Thanks,Todd.

I'll copy it down to them.

THanks for the post, Todd. I graduated from NC State, so have a fondness for this area and the BBQ you can only get around there, Wilson and Rocky Mount. Alas, in Atlanta, I've had to just make my own. But thanks to these little cookers, I can do a creditable job.

I'll vouch for Coopers. It's a "neighborhood joint" near downtown Raleigh. I didn't know you could get Nahunta pork at the farmer's market. Whenever I visit my in-laws in Princeton I'm tempted to travel a little further when I see the sign with the crowned pig.

For those who may not know, Lexington BBQ is ketchup-based, while those around Raleigh and down east are strictly vinegar. The line of demarcation seems to be somewhere west of Siler City, where Aunt Bea used to live. In Asheboro we get the ketchup mess, and now that I can smoke my own I have no desire to patronize the BBQ places here.

I'm partial to the BBQ from Allen and Son near Chapel Hill when it come to the Triangle. Not a lot of variety on the menu, but I ain't looking for variety in a Q joint.