breakfast blogger

I haven’t even had time to post the remainder of my Turkish (and one British) breakfasts - which you can find a complete blog of at spankyhorowitz.shutterfly.com but I promise to as soon as I get back from yet another gastronomic adventure.

I am now deep in the heart of Barbecue Country. In Canada - people think “grilling” is Barbecue -.

I assure you it is not.

Paulie and I are driving a car from Montreal to Florida, and as luck would have it, we will have to drive through 3 very important barbecue ‘zones’. There exist a few different styles of Barbecue; all involve cooking the meat - usually pork shoulder - over wood coals for many, many hours:

Virginia has a tomato-based sauce known to most of the world as “barbecue sauce”. We sampled this at The Smokey Pig, in Ashland, Virginia.
North Carolina employs a vinegar ‘n’ pepper sauce that is not really a sauce, but wets the meat to perfect moisture levels. We enjoyed this in the Barbecue capitol of the world, or the county, or wherever ….- in Lexington, NC, at Smiley’s Barbecue - the only place opened on Sundays. Whew!

South Carolina uses a mustard-based sauce . . . which we will be trying today.
I have compiled a list of the best twenty or so barbecue smokehouses in the state. Paulie and I will need this many as some are now closed, and many have switched to using gas instead of wood - and I refuse to support these establishmenst, as they are contributing to the decay and possible extinction of what is truly one of the only authentically original “American” cuisines.

We are in Southern North Carolina, near Charlotte, and will cross into South Carolina to begin our search in a few minutes, after Paulie finishes eating his BREAKFAST - which is what you will get to0 see here.

Hampton Inn breakfast . . .MMMMmmm…..
Here is the hotel:

Here is the interesting part of thebreakfast buffet:

which is some weird breakfast pockets that you must microwave yourself:

Paulie had this one: filled with egg and sausage and cheese:

I decided, wisely, to save my gastronomic real estate for the Q, as I plan to sample the wares of at least 3 South Carolina Barbecue joints. I had a yogurt:

Stay tuned. . . and if Peabody allows, perhaps you will get to see my Barbecue adventures right here. . .

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