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Let's Make Barbecue Beans, And Earn A Memorial Day InvitationMemorial Day weekend is upon us! Which means two things: Public swimming pools are opening throughout the four-seasons parts of our great nation; and, if you haven’t been invited to a Memorial Day cookout, it turns out no one likes you very much. Hey, join the club, pal. Long summer weekends are for...

The Caucasian's Guide To Black BarbecuesAs interracial dating, integration, and cross-cultural friendships increase, many people find themselves attending events in which they are the minority, and have no frame of reference from which to base their etiquette. In an effort to help bridge the cultural gaps we all have to traverse at some p...

If You Grill All These Foods On Memorial Day, The Planets Will AlignCold fusion. Mars colonization. A cure for cancer. Peace on earth. Cute li’l goals, I guess, if you’re looking for a self-esteem boost. ...

Ironically, Joyce's Burger Recipe is Just, "A Burger. Hot."

Over on The Paris Review, author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan assembles Ernest Hemingway's favorite burger ("ground beef, onions, garlic, India relish, and capers, cooked so the edges were crispy but the center red and juicy") from the notes in his extensive personal papers. It's a fun read, and a tasty-seem...

The Foodspin Cookout Reader

Here's your handy-dandy collection of all the Foodspins you'll need in order to put together a cookout good enough to stave off total abandonment by all of your loved ones for at least another 32 hours or so. We'll update this occasionally with new cookout-appropriate stuff. In the meantime, get c...

How To Grill Cheeseburgers And Win Your Memorial Day Cookout

So you've got your grand Memorial Day weekend feast all planned, your spread of exotic, expensive victuals purchased and prepped and ready to be grilled and smoked and barbecued and so on. Brined chicken breasts and home-ground-spice-rubbed pork ribs and organic farm-raised fair-trade cockles; a ra...

I Hung Out With Dukebags And Discovered The Greatest Value In The History Of Drunken Eating

I went down to the Research Triangle area of North Carolina last week. This is the area comprising Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh. It's a very pretty area, surrounded by tall trees that are so perfectly spaced out it's almost as if the entire forest were landscaped. And the forest floor itself is ...