The Grill of Victory Hot Competition on the Barbecue Circuit

by Brohaugh, William; Mann, Claud

• ISBN13: 9781578602674
• ISBN10: 157860267X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-25
• Publisher: Clerisy Press, Emmis Books

Summary

One steamy July weekend in 2005, grilling teams from across the Midwest and the South descended on tiny Galax, Virginia, in hopes of winning the first annual "Smoke on the Mountain" barbecue championship. Galax is one stop on the circuit best known for Memphis in May, a colossal celebration of oink that attracts 90,000 carnivores and is the largest pork-barbecue-cooking contest on the planet.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 10
Introduction	p. 12
Prologue	p. 16
Arrival of the Crash Test Dummies	p. 17
Barbecue Arrives Under the Christmas Trees	p. 22
The Long Helloooo	p. 31
Non Sequiturs and Ron Sequiturs	p. 40
The Hog and the Fiddle (Leaving Out "Hey Diddle-Diddle")	p. 52
Blue Ridge Mountain Breakdown	p. 62
Of Cooks and Cooks and Cookers	p. 75
The Run for Pride and Points and Profits... Well, Forget the Profits	p. 85
Building the Industrial-Strength Backyard	p. 96
Happy Hog Gets His Rude Awakening	p. 112
The Primal Urge to Hunt and Roast and Give Each Other Crap	p. 116
Acolytes of the Church of Barbecue	p. 127
Starring Hog-Eye Pierce	p. 136
Jumpin' Jack's Flash Can't Cook With Gas Gas Gas	p. 142
Sing a Song of Pig Puns, Pocket Full of Wry	p. 155
Pigs Prove Again (See "Noah's Ark") That They Can Make It Through the Rain	p. 162
'Cue Meets John 'Cue Public	p. 171
The Suspiciously Coincidental Rhyme of Booze and Barbecues	p. 178
A Bit of Broadway Musical Comedy Comes to Main Street Galax	p. 184
Songs That Choirboys Do Not Sing	p. 188
Morning Has Broken, and We Know Who Broke It	p. 204
Kickoff of the Ass-Kicking Contest	p. 211
Blind Trusts That Few Banks Have Seen Before	p. 228
The Blind Feeding the Blind	p. 234
Mel and Ms. Piggie Resist the Temptation to Fool Around	p. 238
T-Minus Piggy Revisited: The Countdown From Ten Begins	p. 256
Don't Grill the Messenger	p. 264
Sex, Lies and Videotape (Lacking the Sex and the Videotape)	p. 274
Judging How the Judges Are Judged	p. 280
Dressed to Grill	p. 285
Ten-Point-Oh, Ten-Point-Oh, and the Rushin' Judge Gives It a Nine-Point-Nine	p. 297
"It Just Ain't That Damn Serious"	p. 302
An Elephant Never...Umm, How Does That Go?...An Elephant Is Never Forgotten...Something Like That	p. 307
The Grill of Victory, The Agony of Defeat	p. 311
Epilogue	p. 329
Get Yourself a Taste of Galax	p. 334
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