Visit North Carolina BBQ restaurants this summer to earn free swag and generate donations to local food banks
RALEIGH — The Summer of ‘Cue is back for 2022! Now’s the time for you to continue checking off that barbecue bucket …
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Summer of ‘Cue Week 4: Pik N Pig, Moore County
Week 4 took us to the Sandhills to the Pik N Pig in Carthage, where we met up with Stephen Herring and his wife, Ashley. Stephen works for the National Pork Board and his wife works for the N.C. Cattlemen’s …
Summer of Cue Week 3: Grady’s Barbecue, Wayne County
Grady’s is another iconic restaurant on the Historic Barbecue Trail that cooks whole hogs over wood. This small, family-owned restaurant is located in Dudley, just outside of Goldsboro. Like most of the old barbecue restaurants, the building has few frills, …
Summer of ‘Cue Week 2: Skylight Inn BBQ, Pitt County
Summer of ‘Cue was the perfect excuse to drive to Greenville to experience the 73-year-old James Beard-Award-Winning restaurant, Skylight Inn BBQ. After all, it’s the self-proclaimed Capitol of BBQ, with a replica dome sitting atop the vestibule. Skylight Inn …
NC Pork Council declares this the Summer of ‘Cue
Free T-shirt is one reward for supporting local businesses
RALEIGH – The North Carolina Pork Council is declaring this the “Summer of ′Cue” – as in barbecue – and has launched a social media challenge to encourage support for local …
Summer of ‘Cue kicks off at Southern Smoke BBQ
We launched the Summer of ‘Cue restaurant promotion three weeks ago to a great deal of excitement from our fan base on social media. After all, who wouldn’t welcome an excuse to get out of the house and go explore …
NC Pork joins forces with barbecue cooks to give back; Smithfield donates a truckload
They weren’t cooking whole hogs and there wasn’t a judge in sight, but in mid-April, cooks from the North Carolina Pork Council’s Whole Hog Barbecue Series showed up to provide close to 5,000 servings of barbecue to Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s…
3rd Annual Barbecue Summit
Cooks, judges and festival organizers are invited to join us for our third annual day of learning, fellowship and whole hog barbecue and our first ever summit cookoff!
Current and prospective judges
Not only is this your chance for a …