We’re getting into tomato season, which means it’s time to start making gazpacho.  I like gazpacho in the summer because it takes advantage of seasonal vegetables, it’s easy to make, you don’t have to turn on the stove in the summer to make it,  and it is a cool, light, refreshing change from what some would consider excessive barbecue consumption.  It probably contains fewer calories … Continue reading Easy Gazpacho

You just can’t hear this often enough. Continue reading The Barbecue Song

Readers who were brought up on commercial barbecue sauces, which contain as much as 43% sugar (!), may be puzzled, even alarmed by my unwavering opposition to sweet barbecue sauces.  Do not scoff. Here’s an article from Texas Monthly that backs me up, and explains why you really need to skip the sugar in favor of something acidic, such as vinegar, to balance the richness … Continue reading Just Say No to Sugar

Dan Kenney, the celebrated host of the Annual Beer Snob Pig Picking in Lumberton, North Carolina, has a great post up on front porches on his Coach4aday blog.  It talks about the changes in architecture that have diminished the role of the front porch as an effect and cause of our growing isolation from each other.  I hope you read it, and follow Dan’s blog. … Continue reading Front Porches