Usually there’s quite a bit of fanfare, especially within the Yelper community. With an ear to the ground (sounds kind of messy), we remain abreast of new brick and mortar restaurants and food trucks serving the Duke City. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Barbecue–true barbecue–is far superior!īecause I’m too lazy to employ low and slow techniques to smoke meats and don’t really like the flavor of grilled meats (at least the way I incinerate them into coal-like slabs), my only recourse is to visit barbecue restaurants. Long before becoming a certified Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) barbecue judge, I’ve known the difference between barbecue and grilling. What I won’t do…ever…is call it barbecue. Instead, like many Americans, I drag out my grill, put on my “Kiss the cook” apron, throw a slab of meat on it and heat it within an inch of its life. Not when it may take twelve hours to reap the rewards of my efforts. Place Your Order At This CounterĪs a member of the instant gratification culture, I’ve never had the discipline and patience to smoke meats myself. We frequent local barbecue joints who haven’t acquired the fame fashioned by competition, television programs and books about our favorite American pastime (baseball be damned). Americans make pilgrimages to famous pantheons of barbecue to partake of meat cooked low and slow over indirect flame. At the very least, it represents a pop culture microcosm. ![]() It’s practically a cult in some parts of the fruited plain. Barbecue, in fact, has supplanted apple pie as the proverbial All American gastronomical delight. ![]() It’s likely that if you didn’t grow up hearing the adage “ as American as apple pie,” you may have heard a version in which barbecue takes the place of or is included with apple pie. They’re part of the fabric of what makes this country fat…er, great. These foods may not have been invented in the good ol’ USA, but we’ve adopted them. During a 2016 campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Latinos for Trump founder Marco Gutierrez warned that if the country did not adopt tighter immigration standards as proposed by Republican nominee Donald Trump, there would be “ taco trucks on every corner.” For many of us, the only conceivable retort was along the lines of “ what could possibly be wrong with that?” Tacos (Mexico) have become as American as pizza (Italy), apple pie (England), French fries (Belgium), hot dogs (Germany), peanut butter (Ancient Inca and Aztec civilizations) and barbecue (Caribbean).
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