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- Looking for the country's best barbecue? Look no further than your own backyard. The Business Journal ranked New York City the nation's top destination spot for barbecue. Memphis is number 10. Ouch.
- Ever since Mario Batali blasted food bloggers on Eater, the food blog community has been up in arms, as one might imagine. Off the Broiler and Blogsoop are the latest to chime in.
- NYC Nosh visits Eight Mile Creek to try to shed some light on the question of how to define Aussie cuisine.
- And, via AT: the Kitchen, if you can't get an iPhone, why not bake yourself one?
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I was so shocked by NYC as #1 BBQ destination - until I read that the survey was for "Best BBQ" AND "July 4th Celebrations." Which makes sense - I'd like to see where NYC ranks for BBQ alone. Maybe in the top 10, but not the top 5 places.
cheaptickets.com did the rankings not the memphis business journal. also this is probably the most meaningless ranking i have ever seen. NYC as opposed to st. louis, charleston, memphis et. al. for bbq? - hah.
Sorry - no way New York is better than Memphis or even Dallas. Until Dallas has a chain of "New York BBQs" serving terrible approximations of local cuisine throughout the city, I'm not swayed.
Fun fact: there are no "Dallas BBQs" in Dallas.
iPhone: Way more delicious than you originally thought.
Seriously. New York has improved for BBQ by leaps and bounds over the last decade. Pretty much no chance it ever becomes a BBQ mecca though. The pollution and space restrictions (particularly in Manhattan) simply aren't conducive to BBQ smoking. Dinosaur, RUB, Blue Smoke, Daisy Mae's, the newcomers at Hill Country . . . they are good enough, and should be commended for overcoming some technical obstacles, but wouldn't be considered close to the best joint in many many southeastern cities.
But this ranking is meaningless because it combines July 4 activities with BBQ with no indication of how each is weighted. And NYC does have purty fireworks (and better BBQ than a lot of places with purty fireworks, like DC).