Pit master Ed Mitchell will be cooking ribs on the Today show Thursday morning.
Mitchell is a well-known barbecue man originally from Wilson. He now co-owns The Pit in downtown Raleigh with Greg Hatem, who runs Empire Eats.
The show airs on NBC-17 from 7 a.m.-11 a.m.
And if you want to watch a repeat tonight of Throwdown! with Bobby Flay featuring Ed Mitchell. The details are on the N&O's Happiness is a Warm TV blog.
Andrea Weigl has been the food writer at The News & Observer since the summer of 2007. She has won a handful of awards from the Association of Food Journalists and the Society for Features Journalism. Her profile of chef Ashley Christensen titled "A Force of Nature" will be published in the sixth edition of "Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing." She is serving a three-year term on the James Beard Foundation book awards committee. Follow her on Twitter at @andreaweigl.
