Backyard barbecue staple: the Boston Butt
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Backyard Barbecue Expert Shares His Secrets

When the last signs of winter finally fade, and the weather starts warming, the world is filled with new sights, sounds, and smells. The faint scent of chimneys is replaced by something sweeter wafting across the neighborhood. It’s backyard barbecue.  

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Lexington BBQ Sauce recipe
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How to Make Carolina’s Lexington BBQ Sauce

Pork barbecue affinity among North Carolinians is sharply divided. On each side of the state the preparation of the pig is different. So, too, is the vinegar-based barbecue sauce. Within the nuance of “eastern” vinegar-based sauces, there’s Lexington BBQ sauce.

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Beer can chicken on the grill,
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Barbecue Chicken Beginnings of the Low & Slow Barbecue Show

A wood-handled mop rests in a glass jar half-filled with a brownish liquid. In one fluid motion, the grill lid opens, and a big hand finds the mop. Another finds the jar. With a few sloppy slaps, flavor streams across barbecue chicken halves, sending a savory scent sizzling up from smoldering coals.

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