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 | ABOUT US How did this happen? Well, even I’m not quite sure. I grew up in the Rogue Valley with my family that loved to cook and enjoy all types of food. We cooked everything from fresh vegetables from the garden to a variety of wild game; it all made it to the grill. All year long (even the dead of winter) we had a BBQ…or what I thought was BBQ.
I learned the difference between BBQ vs Grilling after moving to Nashville, TN about 8 years ago. After spending a lot of time with my Nashville “BBQ brothers” sampling many BBQ restaurants, shacks, and roadside stands and picking out what we liked best from each one we decided we now wanted to try true “Competition BBQ”. My first trip to the Jack Daniels International BBQ Festival in Lynchburg, TN was a revelation for myself and my BBQ pioneer and friend, Jay. At the BBQ competition that year we found one of the competitors that won the championship in a previous year. After some serious bribing (with a lot of cash and a bottle of Lynchburg Tennessee’s liquid gold) we finally made the deal…one rack of serious competition ribs! I took out my pocket knife and we began to investigate the many intricate layers of flavor. We smacked, moaned, groaned, and laughed as we devoured them. We had never tried any ribs in any restaurant that came close to these ribs. From that moment on I was hooked on learning how to do awesome BBQ; I just had to have my own smoker and I was set on having one built.
During the week the corporate world was sucking us dry, but on the weekends my friends and I kept our whistles wet while trying out my new recipes. They were always encouraging me to start my own BBQ business there in Nashville, but I was missing my family, friends and the mountains, rivers, and lakes in the Rogue Valley. So it was time for a change from the corporate world in Tennessee and head back home.
I brought my recipes and smoker back home with me and started cooking BBQ for my Oregon friends and family; now they were being just as persistent in encouraging me to start up my own BBQ business. I combined all the support I have along with my passion for REAL BBQ and that is how Rogue BBQ came to be.
If you ever looked at a rack of ribs and thought they looked just plain sexy . . . we will get along just fine. If the notion of smoking meat low and slow for hours until it is tender and juicy, and then blessing it with just the right amount of sauce makes your mouth water, Rogue BBQ is your kind of place.
We do not have a purely traditional style of BBQ. We have our own idea of what BBQ is and can be! We combine ideas from all regions, heritages and cuisines from Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Kansas City, Native Americas, my family, years spent watching The Food Network, plus my passion for serious flavor in food! Rogue BBQ is dedicated to one thing, excellence, in the products we provide and the service we give. So the next time you are looking for something different and delicious to eat, GO ROGUE! . . . ROGUE BBQ.
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