Get Your Grill On

It may come as something of a surprise to many of the readers of Get Your Grill On, but some people do not grill year round. In fact, lots of folks view grilling and barbecuing as a warm weather sports. For me, the sign that spring is here is when I smell charcoal […]

Here’s my rebuttal to New York Is Barbecue Country, posted recently on Get Your Grill On.
I rank RUB and Daisy May’s with the best of Northeast BBQ, but I think overall, New York City barbecue still has plenty of room for improvement. I’m not sure which NYC barbecue joint ranks #3 on my imaginary Gotham […]

Last night on my way home from work, I stopped in the Barnes and Noble bookstore on Broadway and West 81st Street in Manhattan. This bookstore always surprises me. Besides having all the latest books, it has one of the best selections of barbecue cookbooks in New York. They may only have one or two […]

Anyone associated with or around competition barbecue has heard of Lotta Bull BBQ. Mike and Debbie Davis are currently the most prolific team in the country. In 2006, they were Grand Champions at 16 contests including the $75,000 Championship BBQ Series on the Versus network. In 9 other contests, they were Reserve […]

Looking for something to do today?
Well, the competition barbecue season begins in earnest in the North East. Take a ride up to the Abington VFW Post 5737, 30 Central Street, Abington MA for The New England Barbecue Society’s annual Snowshoe Contest.
This is a great event that attracts some of the best competitive barbecue teams in […]

The next time you decide to smoke a Boston butt or a picnic shoulder you may want to consider an alternative to a simple rub. At most competitions you’ll see competitors viciously rubbing their pork with pounds and pounds of homemade rubs, the ingredients of which are a secret that they will certainly die for.
While […]

This weekend I took a road trip from Kansas City to Lynchburg, Tennessee with my brother in law and cooking parter, Randy. Lynchburg is the infamous home of the Jack Daniel’s distillery. I picked up a great cookbook called Cooking with Jack. As my wife thumbed through it, she kept exclaiming, “I […]

Check any of the all-purpose restaurant bulletin board sites and the only topic more arduously debated than who has the best barbecue in any given area is the subject of tipping. I originally posted these tips on tipping on my barbecue restaurant review site, but these could apply to any restaurant:

For a full-service restaurant, if […]

In a recent post, I mentioned something about barbequed octopus and received an email about how to go about it. Well the first bit of advice I have concerning octopus is make sure it’s dead…very dead. There is a rather notorious post written by Eddie Lin of Deep End Dining that captures every wiggle and […]

Stopped by Joe’s Cajun Market for the first time this week and found these custom burgers. Joe’s is a small meat market where I live. The Big Mama is bacon wrapped ground chuck with Cajun seasoning. Had them for Sunday dinner and served again for guests the following Friday night. They were […]