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Day: June 20, 2015

A rack of pork ribs is a lot of food. The bones are meaty and sing more of pork than smoke, despite their well-crusted surface.

Sweet Lucy’s Smokehouse, Philadelphia PA

June 20, 2015 / / 0 Comments

REVIEW

We’d be the first to admit that barbecue in the Northeast must be graded on a curve. We’ve rarely had barbecue in our home region that compares favorably with the stuff obtainable in the barbecue regions of America’s South, Midwest, or Texas. It’s just a fact of Northeast life. But it doesn’t mean that we and our fellow cold-weather Q-lovers are condemned to a barbecue-less existence. We just have to readjust our sights somewhat (and avoid the local Q for a few months following a barbecue-country trip). Continue reading

Fried chicken dinner from Gus's, which began frying chickens in Tennessee almost 60 years ago

Gus’s Fried Chicken Opening in ATL by End of Summer

June 20, 2015 / / 1 Comment

We learned over the winter that Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken planned to open in Atlanta this year, as part of their big national rollout, and we learned exactly where. The latest news is that the good people of Atlanta will be tearing into Gus’s thighs and breasts by the end of the summer. It’s an eagerly anticipated opening in these parts, though it’s not as if there’s any shortage of great fried chicken in the ATL.

Huckleberry Festival, Jay OK, June 27th and July 4th (and 5th?) 2015

June 20, 2015 / / 0 Comments

Ahh, the huckleberry! Anyone who has spent significant time in the Mountain States of the U.S. has surely encountered huckleberry jams, syrups, and milkshakes, and the taste is unforgettable. They look like blueberries but, as a food (as opposed to horticulturally, about which we know nothing), there are two main distinctions: they tend to be seedy, and the flavor, to us, is like a more intense combination of blueberry and blackberry. They only grow wild – all efforts to farm them have failed. While they are generally associated with the Mountain States (they are the state fruit of Idaho), plenty of huckleberries can be found elsewhere – they are abundant in New York forests, for instance. Continue reading

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