What Is Barbecue? A Brief Introduction
Whether you spell it barbecue, barbeque, BBQ, or Bar-B-Q, there’s much to sort out when trying to distill the origins of the term and a universally accepted meaning for it, let alone a recipe.
But leaving aside the Australians’ term for the grill (a couple of shrimp on the barbie?), and the definition as a social gathering one attends to consume the resulting food, barbecue the chosen spelling for the sake of this article has come to ever so loosely apply to meats slow-cooked over lower temperatures, with a lot of smoke, and often indirect heat. The result is tender, smoky, melt-in-your-mouth beef. Or pork. Or chicken or lamb. Perhaps bison. But definitely meat unless it’s shrimp, but that’s just another exception we’ll get to later.
Chelsea Chandler shows you what it takes to be a judge at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. (Chelsea should know. She’s a judge!)
There are two qualifications: One, you really have to love barbecue. Two, you cannot be vegan or vegetarian. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. Author: Istvan Bardos, Chelsea Chandler Published: 4:32 PM CDT May 14, 2021 Updated: 4:32 PM CDT May 14, 2021
MEMPHIS, Tennessee The Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest at Tom Lee Park in downtown Memphis is heating up! Local 24 Meteorologist Chelsea Chandler is a certified judge this year and shares what it takes to do the job.
Somehow Memphis isnât a top barbecue city and we have questions Memphis hosts the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest each May. (Source: WMC) By WMC Action News 5 Staff | May 13, 2021 at 10:37 AM CDT - Updated May 13 at 1:20 PM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Let us start by saying we 100 percent disagree.
However, a map is going viral showing top cities for barbecue in the United States and somehow Memphis isnât on it! ChefsPencil.com used TripAdvisor reviews to rank the top 10 barbecue cities in the U.S. (Source: ChefsPencil.com)
Since May is National Barbecue Month shoutout to the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest! ChefsPencil.com analyzed restaurant reviews on TripAdvisor. The site looked at barbecue joints in the countryâs top 75 largest cities and ranked them based on their average rating.