Looks fairly accurate. What I think of as Alabama barbecue sounds closer to their description of the TN variety, but, then, I am from the northern half of the state. They're nicer to Pacific Northwest than I would be--I'd probably use some term like "no-barbecue wasteland." Which is not to say Seattle isn't a perfectly wonderful place to eat. It's just that if there's any barbecue here worthy of the name, I've yet to eat it.
ETA I'm very curious to try SC barbecue. It's considered heretical by just about every other barbecue region, but it sounds interesting.
The surprising thing is that Chicago, known for its hog-butchering past and fantastic steaks, has really lousy barbeque. There are only a few halfway decent BBQ restaurants (Honey 1, a few of the South Side places, and Carsons and Robinson's chains).
We do have some really good competitions here, though--my dad and his team won the 1988 Inc. Ribfest, which is a very big deal here, and they also did very well at the Naperville Ribfest several years running. They sold the business back in the mid-90s, but Dad still makes occasional batches of his sauce. Sweet and tomato-ey, but with a nice zing when it hits the back of your throat. I have a mason jar full in my cabinet, waiting for some chicken.
Yeah, I think they had a map and therefore discovered a compulsion to fill in all the regions with something. And "grilling sauce" is just wrong for anything in this part of the south -- if it's grilled, it's not barbecue.
I just counted the grains of rice in a tablespoon of rice - it was aborio - I am going to guess that 1 teaspoon is about 100 grains of rice.
so 2400 grains is about a cup of rice
Political stuff. Phil Nugent's been on fire this week with his posts about the attacks on Al Gore and about David Brooks being overkind to Rep. Deborah Pryce: [link] Go and read.
f you're not changing airlines, I would think you could make a 30-minute transfer in Cinti. The terminal is relatively compact. If one of your flights is on the small regional jets, you might have to take a bus out to the outer terminal, and that would slow you down, but if it's all big Delta planes I think it would work.
Thanks flea! It's SFO-CIN then CIN-BOS so all big planes.
What flea said. The Delta terminal is self-contained, and as long as you don't have to switch to a small regional jet, there are only 2 concourses in the terminal, and it's not huge.
Thanks Tep!
I made these plans so long ago because of the miles, and if I had to switch them now--ugh.
I note that Alaska is not on that BBQ map, and therefore call shenanigans. Due to oil and military postings, we get a lot of Southerners up there (poor things), and some have stayed to open up BBQ joints. They tend to be either Texas or KC-style.
Also, Susan, I think there's a BBQ joint near downtown called... Steel Pig? At least, it was there in 2004, and mighty tasty.
