Can someone tell me how to make authentic Lexington North Carolina-style pork?]
Dave Lineback– Making barbecue is one of the most simple forms of cooking. It has been going on since prehistoric times. Here’s how you do it: 1 Burn some hardwood down to coals. 2 Place a tough cut of meat over the coals and cook until tender. 3 Pull out a hunk of meat, add a little finishing sauce if you like, and enjoy! When you burn a hardwood like hickory or oak down to coals, the “bitter” components of the smoke are burned off in the flame. What remains is a thin, sweet smoke coming from the coals that is almost invisible to the eye. This is the smoke that produces the characteristic pink aurora in the surface of the meat that gives barbecue its distinctive flavor. I do not believe it is possible to get too much of this smoke in the meat. Without it, the meat is nothing more than a roast. That’s why every barbecue joint worth its salt has a separate hearth for making the coals that are subsequently picked up in a shovel and placed under the meat in the pits. While you might see
