Neese's Country Sausage Got Sold To Someone Who's Not a Neese
First, it had a listeria outbreak. Then its products disappeared from North Carolina grocery stores. There was no explanation, until now. A new owner has taken over Neese's, a family-owned business that's made bricks of sausage, liver pudding, scrapple, and more for more than a century. So what happens next?
Meet a man who built a barbecue smoker out of a file cabinet
Is it real? Does it work? Is it safe? Was it hard to make? Why would anyone build one? Why is he selling it and trying to get a broken chainsaw in return? And, is this a singular piece of American ingenuity or is there an underground community of file cabinet smokers that I had never heard of before now? The seller, and an expert, tell us everything.
Five paragraphs (and one video) that explain North Carolina barbecue
I'm not talking about what's better: Eastern or Lexington-style, whole hog or pork shoulder. I'm more interested in what the state of barbecue in this state tells us about the state of ourselves.
