Doxie Guy BBQ sauces and their inspiration, Reeci the dachshund.
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Doxie Guy BBQ Sauce & Eastern Carolina Corn Pudding

What do you get when you mix Eastern Carolina barbecue heritage, COVID lockdown, and a house full of Weiner dogs? We find out on The Low and Slow Barbecue Show as Doxie Guy BBQ introduces us to his barbecue sauce business. The Doxie Guy himself talks about the source of his sauce inspiration, his barbecue heritage, and his advice for business and barbecue.

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Apple City BBQ Jalapeño Lime Sauce Takes Backseat to the Meat

While debates between Eastern and Western BBQ continue, in North Carolina there are plenty of barbecue joints that aren’t chiming in. Instead, for places like Apple City BBQ, the focus is on producing “properly cooked, quality meat” – and not on whether you add tomato to your sauce or choose shoulder over whole hog.

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Collard Green Chowder with greens, ham and potatoes, as prepared and shared by Southern Smoke BBQ of NC Pitmaster and Cookbook author Matthew Register.
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Southern Smoke BBQ and Collard Green Chowder

Southern Smoke BBQ Pitmaster Matthew Register joined The Low & Slow Barbecue Show to reveal his barbecue roots, his sauces, and his restaurant in Garland, N.C. Read this blog to get the recipe for his culinary creation, Collard Green Chowder.

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A pig with wings on a wood sign at Charlotte barbecue restaurant Midwood Smokehouse.
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Charlotte Barbecue Roots Run Through Midwood

At one time Charlotte barbecue was like a food desert compared to other Carolina cities. Then Midwood Smokehouse arrived in 2011. With Pitmaster Matt Barry running the barbecue show for FS Food Group, one Midwood Smokehouse restaurant in an eclectic neighborhood east of Uptown Charlotte has grown to six locations across the Carolinas.

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Hanna Raskin's Benne Wafers prepared from Emily Meggett's Gullah Geechee recipe.
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Benne Wafers and Barbecue Traditions with Hanna Raskin

Like a fierce spirit of independence, food traditions run deep in the Carolinas. From barbecue smoked low and slow to Benne Wafers planting a historic place along the coast in the 1700s, the nation’s most familiar flavors grow in places with fertile food heritage.

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