Southern Style BBQ Pork - Doin' it the Right Way!

I was going to post on the history behind thecourse we have all heard of the Arkansas
Southern style BBQ pork which is so famousRazorbacks. Well, the climate of Virginia was so
down South. I mean if you are in the South, BBQsuited for raising pigs that they just multiplied way
is always pork. It is never beef. In fact, they willtoo fast. They were so numerous that they
throw you out of the state if you try to ordersettlers rounded them up and delivered them to
beef brisket, or steak, or Santa Maria style tri-tip.an island in the James River. And this island is
So in thinking and mulling over this post I figuredwhat came to be known as 'HOG'S Island."
that a lot of people do not even know the historyNow these wild pigs were the main source of
behind the reason for the southern style BBQfood for the early settlers because they were so
pork which they do down there.numerous and easier to catch than wild game or
So I thought that I would start with anfish. Now the Indians which were indigenous to the
introduction on why they even chose pork toarea had been smoking and curing meat, mainly
begin with. These animals were brought herevenison, since long before the white man showed
from England and Bermuda for two reasons:up and so they were the ones to teach us how
1) To raise food for the settlersto cure pork.
2) And sport.Now this is just the basic idea of how they came
The early settlers loved their sport which theyto doing Southern style BBQ pork down South.
brought with them from England and that wasThere were just way too many of the pigs and
the sport of wild boar hunting. In some parts ofhogs down there. And it was just a whole lot
our country we still do this today. Where I ameasier to catch them than it was the wild game
from, the Paso Robles area of Caif., we have anor the fish. Then the native Indians taught them
area up around Lake Naciemento and Fort Hunterhow to cure and salt the meat down.
Liggett where they still do this every year.And of