Written by Louis Armstrong's wife in about 1927, this tune entitled "Struttin' with some Barbecue" isn't about food. T...

 Barbecue Hash & Grits So, you like to cook, do you? How about a dish that takes about eight hours to prepare? Here is the recipe...

Teres Major Next time you are shopping for beef, keep an eye out for a cut called teres major. Sometimes it's also called mock tende...

,You know the stew is done when your paddle stands up in the pot. Recently, I had the privilege of hanging out with the Proclamation St...

Here I am spritzing the barbecue while being recorded by Charles Thomas of CVTV It was a hot July day as filming (actually digital vide...

Virginia's Shenandoah Valley Barbecued Chicken The late Dave Shirkey is the Shenandoah Valley's most famous barbecue chicken co...

California Barbecue Cooks - c. 1890 In the latest issue of Smoke Signals Magazine is my article about the origins of California barbec...

P.D. Gwaltney Jr. in 1902 with the world's oldest country ham. Photo courtesy of the Isle of Wight County Museum. In a 1688 letter...

Damaged Apollo 13 Module. Photo courtesy of www.nasa.gov . So, the movie "Gravity" failed to win best picture at the 86th Ac...

This post isn't about food but, I did find it interesting. So, here you go. On March 21, 1782 near Walker's Creek in what is no...

17th century Virginia Indian vegetables, no potatoes In 1621, two years after being selected to be the first speaker of the Virginia Ho...

There is an often repeated claim made in several books about barbecue that in the 17th century the Virginia House of Burgesses passed a l...

Ed Mitchell, "the Pope of Barbecue" from Wilson, North Carolina, sums it up best : "Cooking barbecue is a craft handed...

Old Virginia Brunswick Stew “We crossed the stream upon a shaking plank laid from bank to bank, and strolled down the slope to the sce...