a bbq festival

this weekend, blakey & i spent our saturday afternoon at the stokin' the fire bbq festival at sloss! 

sloss furnace is birmy's only national historic landmark.  it was the twentieth century's only blast furnace.  this is kind of crazy: at one point, birmy produced 42% of the total iron in the US.  whoa.  we've been wanting to go explore sloss & learn all about it but haven't had the chance yet.  at least we finally found the opportunity to be there!  next time we'll actually walk around & education ourselves.

saturday was all about bbq.  lucky for me, i have learned to love bbq in the south.  oklahoma bbq = not my favorite.  too sweet & syrupy.  alabama bbq = awesome.  vinegary & delicious. we walked around & tried so much bbq.  lots & lots of pulled pork, one of my favorite foods.  & some great ribs too.  one group had wings that had to be marinated in soy & honey.  sounds weird, right?  so good!  probably couldn't eat an entire plate full, but one was fantastic.

our friends, conor & jonathan boone, joined us for our day o' bbq.  j.boone is a master at finding the cooks that are about to put out food & getting first in line.  it was pretty impressive.  &, as boys will be boys, we got to talk about football for a couple hours.  have i mentioned how excited i am football is about to start?? 

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always fun to hang out with the byrds.  especially when eating is involved.  by the way, you will laugh to know that we went to moe's for dinner later that night.  had to get the world's best chicken wings to go with all of that pork :)

love love,

kjp.