One night when I was a teenager, visiting extended family in the Arkansas delta, I was told to prepare myself for “some mighty good eatin’.” I supposed that we were going to someone’s home or a restaurant. Instead, on this moonless night, the car crossed over a bridge above the St. Francis River, the outlines […]
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By J. Keck
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Memphis Style Barbecue
By J. Keck
Posted in Food Talk , barbecue, beef brisket, charcoal, charles, chicken, connoisseur, family, Food, meal, memphis, pork, rendezvous, restaurant, review, reviews, ribs, smoked sausage, tenesse, tennessee, vergo |
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Appreciating a Saturday lunch at Charles Vergo’s Rendezvous Restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee — the best of the best of Memphis barbecue, I was, indeed, satisfied! Not being one to hold back my gustatory pleasure of looks, gestures, and auditory punctuations to this meal, I may have embarrassed my family a bit. But having preceded the […]
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