In early September, I spent five days in the Carolinas. Most of my time was spent sniffing out stories in barbecue country, and those experiences became the core of Serious Eats columns on the Lexington style, barbecue sides in the Carolinas, the Mustard belt of South Carolina and my pilgrimage to Scott’s Variety Store. The [...]
My newest barbecue column for Serious Eats is the last of the stories I’ve written on my recent trip through the Carolinas. This piece is about the experience of eating at Scott’s Variety Store and Bar-B-Que, a country smoke house that is enough to make a man believe every barbecue legend in the book. Click [...]
My newest barbecue column for Serious Eats is the third of four stories I’m writing on my recent trip through the Carolinas. This piece includes a set of reviews focused on the region stretching from Columbia to Charleston in South Carolina. Referred to by some as “The Mustard Belt,” this area is known for pairing [...]
My newest barbecue column for Serious Eats is the second of four stories I’m writing on my recent trip through the Carolinas. This piece is devoted to the incredible side dishes of North and South Carolina. Featured: Brunswick stew, hush puppies and the Palmetto state’s barbecue hash (pictured above), which is essentially the American South’s [...]
James Howell has been working as one of the main pit cooks of Pete Jones’ BBQ, AKA The Skylight Inn, in Ayden, North Carolina, for about fifteen years. The day I spent with him and the rest of Pete Jones’ staff in October of 2009 will figure heavily into a proposal I’m writing for a [...]
Last weekend I went to North Carolina with Joon and The Inspector for the 26th annual Lexington BBQ Festival. Departing from Alexandria, we cruised down I-95 toward the holy land of traditional American barbecue. A detour towards the Skylight Inn promptly resulted in our getting lost for an hour and a half in Eastern North [...]
After almost a year away from the Deep South, I’m finally back in North Carolina. I’ll be bouncing around the state for the better part of a week, tearing through the Hold Steady catalogue and conducting small n research for what I hope will be the book proposal that gets me a publisher’s ear in [...]
