Should Martin be right to join in for the Big Apple BBQ Block Party?
Details for the 7th Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party have been released and this year promises to be just as kick ass as previous years. The major players (Lilly, Mills, Mitchell) are all returning and some new blood (Drew Robinson of Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in Birmingham, AL and Patrick Martin of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint in Nolensville, TN) will also be on the scene to help keep things fresh. This year’s party runs Saturday and Sunday, June 13th and 14th. In order to give you more time to stuff yourself with delicious barbecue USHG has extended the hours to 7 p.m. FastPasses are on sale now for $100 each. They’re making fewer available this year to help keep the lines shorter so if you’re set on going make sure to buy your FastPass soon. Here is the complete list of this year’s pitmasters: * Kenny Callaghan, Blue Smoke, NYC (Kansas City Ribs) – watch our video with Kenny Callaghan * Pete Daversa, Hill Country, NYC (Beef Brisket) – watch the Savory Cities Hill Country video
When Pat Martin of Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint in Nolensville gets ready to smoke a whole hog, it makes a Memorial Day weenie roast look downright sissy. Advertisement On a recent Friday night, he struggled to hoist a 200-pound hog from the back of a pickup onto a steel table. He rubbed it down with spices (deep-tissue style) before wrestling it into a smoker for a 20-hour stay. Chainsaws and small axes were involved. “That’s the thing about these pigs,” Martin said while lifting the animal with Dave Story of Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Que. “They’re slicker than deer guts on a door knob.” By preparing whole hog barbecue, Pat Martin and his cohorts practice a time-intensive art that Martin learned from old-timers in West Tennessee, where he attended college. He’s been dabbling in barbecue for years, but he didn’t open his Nolensville barbecue restaurant until he’d spent time as a bonds trader, a job his father had held on Wall Street. On June 13, Martin also will hit the streets of New York, but
