I’m writing from California today. I’m here to do a presentation this Saturday in Modesto called The Secrets of Great BBQ with Brent Walton and Shuji Sakai. It’s going to be a three hour show on stage sponsored by Save Mart

Brent and I will cook ribs on the Big Green Egg and then they will be judged by some local celebs and and audience members. We’ll also be cooking tri-tip and Shuji will do a great Pizza on the Grill demonstration. Today and tomorrow we’ll be on Sacramento and Co. to promote the event and we may let a few rib secrets slip. So watch us or come on out to the event on Saturday. There will be fun and lots of BBQ eating. We’ll even share the ribs we cook if there are any left after the judging and we’ll share all of the tri-tip. We’re gonna have fun so come on out to The Meet.

I can’t think of a better way to start my new blog than to tell you about a TV appearance I did yesterday with Tampa newsbabe Gayle Guyardo. Gayle does the morning news on the Tampa NBC affiliate and has been doing it for a long time. She’s a fixture in Tampa so it was a real treat to meet her. I get to do a lot of these things but it’s usually in a town where I don’t know the news people so it’s just another day at the office, but when you’re talking with someone that you watch every morning it’s very exciting no matter how jaded you are. And when she’s waaaay good looking it’s even better.

She was very nice too and cool enough to wear a Big Green Egg apron. As you can see I cooked some ribs and chicken for the event and I tried to teach her how to do it at home. It’s that time of year and the phone is ringing. It’s fun to be a BBQ man! Look how happy I am!

Thanks to Chef Dave West and the great folks at The Rolling Pin in Brandon for hosting us. The piece will air sometime soon and if they tell me in advance I’ll post it here.