BUZZ BBQ – Doesn’t Live Up To Buzz

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At Buzz BBQ, our pork ribs looked like beef and our beef was chopped like pork and our roll was stale and the sauce(s) dreadfully commercial and the whole shebang so smoky after six hours and we still couldn’t get the smell off our lips.

Oh yeah, and those ribs were so tender (and completely separated from the bone) they could’ve been baby food — a sure sign of steaming or par-boiling.

For the privilege of enduring these affronts to our aficionado-ness, we drove to the ends of the earth on West Trop and paid $22.

Just thought you’d like to know.

BUZZ BBQ

Somewhere on West Tropicana

Eataly for Everyone: HOW ITALIAN FOOD CONQUERED THE WORLD

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How do you go from being an obscurity, to a novelty, to a stereotype, to king of the world? It wasn’t easy, but, in the case of the cuisines of Italy, it did happen relatively quickly (50 years, give or take a decade), and the road it traveled makes for some mighty delicious reading in John Mariani’s How Italian Food Conquered The World (Palgrave MacMillan 2011).

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