Since moving to the deep south I have had quite an education on the whole concept of Barbecue. Vegetarians might want to skip this post; just sayin'. Barbecue always means pork , and although chicken and beef can be barbecued , the true Southern BBQ is always pork . You can have pulled-pork barbecue, barbecued spare ribs or even a whole hog barbecue , where the entire animal is cooked. (I get to see that first-hand at Thanksgiving on the ancestral lands and yes, I will be blogging about that... read more