Forum From The Archives: The Vast, Various and Multicultural World of Bay Area BBQ

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🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In some parts of the country, barbecue is a fighting word. It launches hot debates on vinegar versus tomato-based sauce and the right ways to rub, spice and smoke. KQED Food editor Luke Tsai has a different take. His new series, BBQ in the Bay, highlights the region’s unique barbecue cultures from various traditions of cooking food outdoors over an open flame and how it brings communities together. As part of Forum’s regular segment on food cultures of the Bay Area, called All You Can Eat, we’ll dish on Mongolian barbecue, lechon, barbacoa, barbecue oysters, brisket and much more. Guests: Pendarvis "Pen" Harshaw , columnist, KQED Arts; host, KQED's "Rightnowish" podcast Luke Tsai , food editor, KQED Ray Castro, dentist in East Bay; Amateur barbecue competitor Rocky Rivera, emcee and writer; part of KQED's BBQ in the Bay series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.7	From KQED.
1:23.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:27.5	Listen, in a lot of this country, the barbecue debates are fierce and regional.
1:31.0	Carolina-style versus Texas, vinegar versus tomato, et cetera.
1:32.2	But this is the Bay.
1:36.8	And as a new KQED food series demonstrates here in our multicultural region,
1:41.9	there are so many more delicious ways to take a huge chunk of meat and cook it for a very long time.
1:45.7	Lechon, Barbacoa, the Real Mongolian Barbecue, and many more.
1:48.9	So today, as you think about what to make for your Labor Day barbecue,
1:53.3	we're going to listen back on a show we did with KQED Food Editor Luke's Si and friends to talk about the many Bay barbecue traditions.
1:56.5	We've got Penn Harsha, Rocky Rivera, and Luke's dentist.
1:59.7	All coming up next after this news, stay tuned.
2:22.1	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
2:26.2	Look, it's been a tough couple of weeks, and yet we've got this long weekend coming up.
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