2008 Big Apple Barbecue Block Party - Proclamation Strew Crew: Brunswick Stew
The 6th Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party took place in Madison Square Park on June 7-8, 2008. The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party brings together the country’s top pitmasters who cook up their award-winning food for over a hundred thousand barbecue enthusiasts.
Led by stewmaster John Clary, the Proclamation Stew Crew, from Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia offered up Brunswick Stew--a brew of boneless chicken thighs, fatback, potatoes, onions, crushed tomatoes, lima beans, shoepeg corn and pure red pepper.
A plaque on a pot in Brunswick, Georgia states that the first Brunswick stew was cooked in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island. A competing story, however, claims that the dish hails from Brunswick County in southern Virginia. According to one legend, the camp chef of a Virginia state legislator invented the recipe in 1828 on a hunting expedition and everyone was immediately hooked.
2008 Big Apple Barbecue Block Party - Proclamation Strew Crew: Brunswick Stew
The 6th Annual Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party took place in Madison Square Park on June 7-8, 2008. The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party brings together the country’s top pitmasters who cook up their award-winning food for over a hundred thousand barbecue enthusiasts.
Led by stewmaster John Clary, the Proclamation Stew Crew, from Lawrenceville, Brunswick County, Virginia offered up Brunswick Stew--a brew of boneless chicken thighs, fatback, potatoes, onions, crushed tomatoes, lima beans, shoepeg corn and pure red pepper.
A plaque on a pot in Brunswick, Georgia states that the first Brunswick stew was cooked in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island. A competing story, however, claims that the dish hails from Brunswick County in southern Virginia. According to one legend, the camp chef of a Virginia state legislator invented the recipe in 1828 on a hunting expedition and everyone was immediately hooked.