If you eat at Smokin’ Pete’s BBQ, chances are you’ve met Katy. She’s an amazing chef and we are lucky to have her on our team. From time to time Katy escapes our little corner shop to head to Quillisascut Farm to feed her soul….and the goats and the chickens. She goes there to Sous […]

Bruce Bjorkman has a great show on KXL Radio out of Portland called Cooking with Mr. Barbecue. I had the good fortune of being on his show for one of my first live radio interviews ever, and he actually asked me back. Tomorrow we’ll jaw about brisket (why not?), my recent fun at Memphis in May, […]

A few weeks ago we said farewell to a dear employee who stuck it out with us for two years. For those not in the restaurant business, that doesn’t sound like a long time. We are lucky to have almost half our staff for longer than two years, but still, two years is kind of like a […]

Meet Crystal Johnson. I met her at Memphis in May, the World Championship of Barbecue. I’d been searching for female pit masters, and was led by someone who said, “You HAVE to meet Crystal of Bare Bones BBQ. She’s the boss and an awesome pit master. She runs a tight ship.” If you hail from the […]

Congratulations to Yazoo’s Delta Q for taking Grand Champion at the World Championship of Barbecue. Yazoo’s Delta Q is the Stubbs Bar-B-Q team, and run by female pitmaster Melissa Cookston. I had the pleasure of meeting Kurt Koegler, president of Stubb’s Bar-B-Q. Kurt and I shout out via twitter and thought it would be nice […]