I pride myself on being a BBQ enthusiast. However, due to a recent raccoon infestation in my Broil King, I’ve been forced to grill choice cuts of meat on a puny table top hibachi I found at a yard sale. Now, late at night, I scour the net, living vicariously through Google images by fawning [...]

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As St. Patrick’s Day approaches it gets me to thinking about different holidays throughout the year and how I classify them as drinking holiday or a family holiday.  This is by no means a complete list but it is a good sampling for 2012. I have broken down each holiday by whether it is known mostly as a [...]

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“Barbecue.” It’s amazing how one word can encompass so many facets of an entire meat-eating tradition. At its core, barbecue means cooking meat over the hot smoke of a fire. From there, it can refer to anything from the process by which the meat is cooked to the type of wood used in the fire. [...]

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In the world of politics, people have long memories. This is an unfortunate fact for faux-presidential candidate Rick Perry, who is a master of making himself look like a first-rate boob. Whether it be calling climate science a “contrived phony mess,” suggesting that Texas might secede from the US (which it legally can’t), or killing [...]

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This past Saturday I attended a 30th birthday party for a good friend of mine. His wife helped arrange a fabulous party and terrific spread of food. But the highlight of the party was that my friend got to do something he has always wanted to do: roast a whole pig. The 80-pound pig was [...]

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Here’s an interesting bit from Nation’s Restaurant News, namely a new menu item from Burger King in yet another bold price-conscious move: The new bone-in ribs, which have been tested in various markets and use the chain’s new batch broilers that are now in nearly all domestic Burger King units, are priced at $7.99 as [...]

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Someone recently pointed out to me that there were at least 3 cake-making shows on television these days. I’ve blogged about this before, but the whole “It works on one network, let’s inundate five other networks with frail copycats” thesis doesn’t work. How many people even know that “Chopped” exist, let alone that it tries [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, So Good is pleased to announce the premiere of “So Good Presents: Meat Madness.” In this tournament style, 32 meat face-off, So Good readers will vote on what is the greatest meat over the next 25 days.   The bracket of all 32 contenders appears below.  We have 4 regions. The “Red” Meat [...]

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Last Saturday I had a friend in town from NYC, and wanted to give her a real taste of the Lone Star State. We went over to a friend’s house for a good old Texas smoked meat fest. By the time we got to my buddy’s house, the preparations were well underway. On the smoker [...]

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My mind has been in overdrive since I dreamed up what may be So Good’s first truly original offering to the world of creative food combinations: a pulled pork cheese steak. The world is filled with crazy food combinations. Burgers with Krispy Kreme donuts for buns. Deep fried Mars bars. Cherry Chocolate soda. In this [...]

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