Forking Tasty

How to make friends and score ribs

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

This past Saturday, as I headed to my nephew’s 4th birthday party in LI, I had to make a quick stop in Sheepshead Bay. I know, not quite the most direct route to the north shore of LI, but it had to be done. Think of it as Richard Dryfuss’ mashed potato sculpture and subsequent journey to the space ship in Close Encounters….

SXSW Pigout

Thursday, March 19, 2009

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Last week I spent some time in Austin at my first SXSW conference. Although it was filled with networking, film, dev geeks and some amazing parties, I am going to focus on the BBQ in this post. In Texas the ‘que is nothing to sniffle at and you can pretty much bank on it being good no matter where you go. That said, there has to be a “best”. Roll up your sleeves and lets dig in…

Hip(ster) BBQ

Thursday, December 11, 2008

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Stopped into Fette Sau BBQ tonight with Urbanos for a quick hit of BBQ. I finally convinced the distracted, slow, apathetic hipster to put some pork ribs, sausage, wet brisket and baked beans on my tray. He acted as if I pulled him off the street and asked him to get behind the counter, put on an apron and help serve me. I get it. A lot of you fools have other things on your mind. Do me a favor. When you are not painting, creating or being sensational, just do your f-ing job please. Good BBQ. Typical service. (for Billyburg)…