Wood-fired BBQ, Ribs, Pulled-Pork and Chicken

Preparations for our 2010 Future Legends of BBQ Competition, being held on October 9th are underway! To help you prepare your team for competition, we are holding a FREE interactive BBQ seminar at Hubba Hubba Smokehouse on Saturday, August 28, 2010 from 8:30AM-11:30AM.

Join Starr Teel, Jim Tabb (founder of the Blue Ridge BBQ competition), KCBS judges, and other “experts” in the field, for a morning of information on topics including: smoke and fire, rubs and meat, and presentation tips for competition. We will have several different types of “live” cookers here for you to see.

We have just received word that our competition is now sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society so our rules will be a little stricter this year! Prepare yourself and your team for competition by attending our seminar.

Contact Paige Hafner if you have any questions!

Paige Hafner
Henderson County Young Leaders Program
P.O. Box 751
Hendersonville, NC 28793
828-697-2000 office

The July issue of Our State Magazine, has a great article on 100 places to eat in North Carolina’s 100 counties. Unfortunately, we didn’t make the list this year but our neighbor, Hot Dog World in Hendersonville, has the honor of being the featured spot for Henderson County. Nice choice!

We didn’t go away empty handed, however. Asheville photographer, Matt Rose, was asked where his favorite place to eat in NC was and why. This was Matt’s comment:

“I like indigenous food. Barbecue is as indigenous as it gets here in North Carolina. My favorite barbecue comes from a restaurant about 20 minutes south of Asheville in the small town of Flat Rock. Behind a row of brightly painted shops is Hubba Hubba Smokehouse. Owner and Pitmaster, Starr Teel, creates the greatest BBQ in a giant, custom-built, wood-fired smoking and roasting chamber.”

Thanks, Matt!

The July issue of Our State is on newsstands now. Pick up a copy for great places to visit or submit your own list of great places to eat in NC.

Hubba Hubba Smokehouse is about more than just BBQ. Recently, we catered a wedding reception at Camp Greystone in Tuxedo, NC.  The bride chose to have her casual rehearsal dinner at Hubba Hubba and then we followed that event up with a beautiful wedding reception.  Check out the photos and video from the wedding reception.

Congratulations to Sarah Goodman Brown and Frank Clayton.  These Facebook fans each won a Hubba Hubba t-shirt in our recent fan appreciation drawing.  Become a fan of Hubba Hubba Smokehouse on Facebook and you too can be entered into a drawing for a free t-shirt. We’ll draw again when we reach 300 fans.

Want to know Starr’s philosophy on BBQ and life in general? Be sure to pick up a copy of The Leading Edge, a new publication of the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Summit Marketing.   Magazines are $2.50 at the chamber.  Can’t wait to learn more?  Read One-on-One with Starr Teel here

“I believe (sharing a meal together) is a sacred event in our daily lives with even the simplest of meals.  It applies to barbecue particularly well.  For the Hubba Hubba team, there is something special about honoring the storied BBQ traditions and people by crafting and serving a meal that even the BBQ purist can sit down, enjoy and tell us we have done well.”

Let us know how you think we are doing by leaving a review on Yelp!, Urban Spoon, Trip Advisor or commenting on Chowhound.

Don’t forget to become a  Hubba Hubba fan on Facebook and follow HubbaHubbaBBQ on Twitter too.

Want to learn more about the art of BBQ?  Then pick up the premier issue of The Leading Edge, a publication of the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce.  Until you can get your hands on copy, here’s a sneak peak of the magazine.

Photo Credit: Henderson County Chamber of Commerce

You don’t really need an excuse to eat our BBQ but if you need help convincing your loved one why you should visit more than once a week, maybe the Argentine President’s argument will help!

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Argentina’s president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise recently when Argentine President, Cristina Fernandez, promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she’s personally proven it.

“I didn’t know that eating pork improved sexual activity,” Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry late Wednesday. “It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra.”

She even joked that “it was all good” after she enjoyed some pork with her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner.

“I think they might be right,” Fernandez said to a laughing audience.

The head of the association of pork producers, Juan Luis Uccelli, supported Fernandez’s speech by saying that Denmark and Japan have a much more “harmonious” sexual life then the Argentines because they eat a lot of pig meat.

“In Osaka, Japan, there is a village in which the people who reached 105 years old and ate a lot of pork had a lot of sexual activity,” he was quoted as saying.

Others were skeptical.  We’ll let you decide.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35134176/ns/business/

Join us Feb. 16th for Hubba Hubba’s Grand Re-opening from 11 a.m. – 3:00p.m.  Details to follow!

Hubba Hubba now has a page on Facebook so be sure to become a fan the next time you log on and suggest us to your other friends.

To see other ways to interact with Hubba Hubba, please visit our interact page.