Big Jim > wrote:
> "Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
> . net...
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>>>> Don't even want to know how much is 'invested' in this hobby!!!\
>>>> Buzz
>>
>> My first experience was on a trip to North Carolina to train a
>> salesman at a new plant we had in Durham. We went to lunch and had
>> "barbecue". Until that time (about 1986) I though barbecue was
>> grilling a chicken and putting that bottled red sauce on it. The
>> barbecue has some clear sauce and was just shredded pork. What a
>> way to learn about barbecue. I had it for lunch every day that I
>> was there.

I saw "smoke and Spice" on a bookstore shelf in the Atlanta Intl Airport in
1993. I bought it, and after reading about 3 chapters, sought out some
Georgia style BBQ.

Up 'till then, I was a griller. I had produced a few briskets, by accident,
which were not bad, but were not BBQ.

I am way better now. (15 year apprenticeship)