My cousin Sinclair Griffin Lee, of the Wilson,North Carolina, Griffins, sent me this nice article from the Charlotte paper on Operation Barbecue Relief.  The group started in Joplin, Missouri after the tornado that devastated that city in 2011.  They organized volunteers locally and from competition pitmasters from eight states and served 120,000 meals over 13 days.  After Hurricane Florence hit North Carolina, Operation Barbecue Relief … Continue reading Barbecue Relief in North Carolina

Lumberton and much of Eastern North Carolina is still under water in the wake of Hurricane Florence.   I95 is flooded.  So are many state highways, county roads, and neighborhood streets.  Many people are without power.  Many have had to evacuate.  Many have lost everything. It’s so easy for us to be numbed by disasters, natural and man-made.  There seem to be so many, and … Continue reading Praying for Lumberton

My friend Dan Kenney, founder of the Annual Beer Snob Pig Picking and the Coach4aday blog, sent me a brochure and map of the South Carolina Barbecue Trail — a map with the location of (almost) every barbecue place in the state.  You should have friends like that.  You can send off for a map, pick one up at an interstate welcome center, or download … Continue reading The Ultimate South Carolina Travel Guide: The South Carolina Barbecue Trail Map, Kicked Up a Notch