This is a guest post from Dan Levine, aka Porky Leswine, the author of the BBQJew blog:
"People who would put ketchup in the sauce they feed to innocent
children are capable of most anything... [W]e, the Eastern North
Carolina purveyors of pure barbecue, will not be roadkill for our
western kin." - Former N&O columnist Dennis Rogers reflecting on a
legislative proposal to make Lexington's Barbecue Festival the state's
official celebration of BBQ (see more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200866.html).
Traditionally trained as a documentary news photographer, 
