Go, speed racer
I've tweaked the map settings on the home page of bbqhunt.com a bit to make the map render quite a bit faster. It's now clustering map points so it's not trying to draw every single point on the page. Our friend from NC has offered to help with some more map optimization, too, when we get some time to sort out what we need. I want rib symbols as the map markers ;)
Good barbecue road trip story
I was surfing around today and found a pretty good barbecue road trip story on the MSNBC site. Apparently, two brothers who are writers have been traveling to try to find the best barbecue restaurants in the country, and the story talks about several of the places they've hit along the way.
Check it out here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32509819/ns/travel-destinations/
Stokin' the Fire BBQ competition
So I was feeling pretty rough today--either allergies or a cold--but the smoke from the Stokin' the Fire BBQ Festival at Sloss Furnace lured me out of the house to shoot some pictures.
I downloaded all the shots from my camera in a gallery here: http://bbqhunt.com/image/tid/17
Not Yo' Momma's
My wife and I have been working on a bottle of Not Yo' Momma's smokey habanero hot sauce made locally in Homewood, Al. I am not a man of many words. I know what I like and what I don't like. This is a good sauce with not too much "hot" to overpower the taste of the sauce. I don't like to cry while eating food but I still want a bit of a kick. I have tested on everything from nachos to pulled pork. I highly recommend this hot sauce.
Sticky Fingers Carolina Classic
If you grew up in the Midlands of South Carolina, particularly near Columbia, your barbecue sauce is very likely to be some shade of yellow.
It's ain't cowardice, though, it's mustard. Mustard-based sauce generally mixes the tang of mustard with some vinegar and enough sweetness to keep it from getting too sharp.
Sticky Fingers' version of mustard-based sauce, called Carolina Classic, is thin enough to properly run down through the fibers of pulled pork, but in sufficient quantities it'll coat a rack of ribs fairly well.
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