BBQ recipes competitions and cookoffs are about as American as apple pie. These events are so big in some local communities that the population can grow by 10 times over a single weekend. Even cities compete with each other for the stature of being known as the best BBQ city in the nation. As it stands now Kansas City and St. Louis both claim the title. The matter is hotly disputed among dozens of other cities and towns from Georgia to California.
The Kansas City Barbecue Society is the daddy of BBQ associations. On the first summer weekend in June alone the Kansas City Barbecue Society is sponsoring no less than 16 BBQ competitions in California, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, North Carolina, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maryland, Colorado, Minnesota, and even staid old Massachusetts.
Barbecue is a distinctly American taste. Nobody is really sure of the origins but there are writings about barbecue going back to pre-revolutionary days. It has become so popular that even hoity-toity gourmet magazines can no longer ignore it. I got a big kick seeing an article about pulled pork in the lede of one such gourmet magazine, right above the article about which fancy French wine is best served with Chateaubriand.
In a way barbecue is a little like golf. Millions and millions of people go out and play it but only a very few are real experts at execution. Barbecue competitions are the same way. They do not look so difficult on the food network so lots of people think that if they can just make or buy the right barbecue sauce that they could compete at that level too. Maybe it is even the same people who think that if they used Phil Mickelson's driver that they could hit the ball 300 yd. down the center of the fairway every time.
The folks who win barbecue competitions know that the barbecue sauce doesn't mean a darn thing if the ribs, chicken, pork or brisket is not slow smoked with the right hardwood wood chips, at exactly the right temperature, for exactly the right amount of time. You do not need an expensive smoker to make competition quality barbecue. You can use your gas grill or your charcoal grill. What separates the champions from the chumps in this game is knowledge gained through trial and error, and experience. Lots of experience.
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