Friday, went to Tom Lee Park and Memphis in May "3 Days of Peace Love & Pork". It was beyond my imagination! The sensations of the aroma of roasting, smoking pork was almost more than I could contain. By going early we were able to get in free; yes free. As we entered the U of Tn was conducting a survey on why people attend festivals such as this. They paid ME a $2 bill for taking the survey.Par for the course during a MIM it did rain, yet however not the hurricane force winds and rain typical of MIM. Just a short shower, enought to cool it back down with the breeze off of the Mighty Mississippi.
We visited several competitors booths, those that were friendly enough to speak to uninvited guests. Lawry's Seasonings sponsors a Cooks Caravan (tour of several competition booths) to initiate the public into the real world of competive Barbecue. We got to see a couple of the favorites that we wanted to see: Jack's Old South and Big Bob Gibson's. The folks at Big Bob Gibson's invited us to come back and eat with them at 7 PM that evening after the first meat came off the grill.
After taking it in my wife and I decided that we might try some of the amateur Patio Porker competition in this area next year.
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive." ~ Harold Thurman Whitman, Philosopher and Theologian
"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really." ~ Tennessee Williams, born Thomas Lanier Williams in Columbus, Mississippi (1911)
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