Fugawetribe

Fall is falling. Acorns hit like shrapnel; the hickory nuts sound like an artillery barrage on the tin roof of the nearby cabin. But while fall is falling no one’s told the leaves yet, and the temperature hit 87F today. Geese are landing at the nearby farmer’s pond. The first time we heard them one [...]

We haven’t quite adapted to this Tennessee weather yet. In Florida the weather guessers forecast a 50-percent chance of rain roughly 300 days a year.  That means your BBQ has a fifty-fifty chance of getting rained on.  So we cook out 300 days a year and only occasionally get rained on. Conversely, up here on [...]

Carolina Gold mustard sauce is Da Bomb! I served a shoulder the other day and I didn’t get any. The pan was clean. They sucked it all up! Carolina Gold from Lexington SC is the real deal, a Piedmont sauce that brings everything to the table. SC Piedmont BBQ sauce is different; it’s a mustard [...]

We got us a pig box.  La Caja China, the Cuban microwave. A hole in the ground without the hole. It’s a box with a grate that holds the fire on top, a roaster. Supposedly it’ll cook a 100# pig in a few hours. Well, maybe, if it doesn’t rain and you don’t peek. We [...]