Just filed my new "Vittles" column for the Queens Alternative Newspaper about BBQ - comparing Texas with New York. And, of course today I pick up the New York Times and read this:
Today, a four-member team from Queens begins competing in the Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue Contest, a two-day event in Lynchburg, Tenn., home of the Jack Daniel Distillery. Tournament officials say the team, Big Island Bar-B-Que, is the first New York City squad ever to be invited to the Jack.
Would've been a great Queens hook for the story! And, it ends up that the Queens representation in the column, Pearson's BBQ, was completely dismal. And, it looks like Chowhounders agree.
Asked my editor if there could be a sidebar. Would be nice to give Queens some sort of pat on the back. Then again, I do live in Brooklyn. Torn loyalties. What's a girl to do?
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