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BBQ Across the South Barbecue is pork. No, beef. How about mutton? Chicken? Goat? North Carolina has the best barbecue. Make that Texas. Memphis is barbecue heaven. Nope. Kansas City. Sometimes, home-cooking is best. The Gibson family's "pig-picking" begins in the early hours. On and on goes this debate about the South's best barbecue. While y'all argued, we ate. Charles Walton, the best food photographer in America, and I sniffed out nearly 100 restaurants, joints, and dives from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City, Missouri. We found that the heart of barbecue beats in Memphis. Tar Heels and Texans cook mountains...

Burger-cola treat at Saddam palace Baghdad |Reuters | 25-04-2003 Print friendly format | Email to Friend Hamburgers, hot dogs and Coca Cola came to the backyard of Saddam Hussain's palace yesterday as the new man in charge staked out his territory with an American-style barbecue. Retired U.S. general Jay Garner enjoyed a relaxing lunch in the once-gracious palace grounds as giant sculptures of Saddam's head looked on. Garner and his entourage, winding up a damage-assessment tour of Baghdad and the Kurdish-controlled north, munched on food cooked on two oversize grills set up among the rose gardens and orange orchards where...

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) -- Supper time has become a double treat at a Marine base outside Saddam Hussein's hometown - not only is there fresh meat, but it's from Saddam's personal hunting preserve. The Tikrit South airfield, where Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 set up base in this week's campaign to take the city, is on the edge of a preserve where Saddam and favored guests once hunted gazelle.Now, Marines are venturing into the woods to hunt the animals, which stand about waist-high. They haul back the carcasses as a welcome substitute for the prepackaged Meals Ready to Eat that...

U.S. Forces Feast on Gazelle at Preserve By ALEXANDRA ZAVIS .c The Associated Press TIKRIT, Iraq (AP) - Supper time has become a double treat at a Marine base outside Saddam Hussein's hometown - not only is there fresh meat, but it's from Saddam's personal hunting preserve. The Tikrit South airfield, where Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 set up base in this week's campaign to take the city, is on the edge of a preserve where Saddam and favored guests once hunted gazelle. Now, Marines are venturing into the woods to hunt the animals, which stand about waist-high. They haul...

United States Marines are hunting gazelles with rocks and pistols-to avoid having to eat MRE's.The soldiers at a base outside of Tikrit say they are enjoying eating the unusual meat from Saddam Hussein's personal hunting preserve. Marine Wing Support Squadron 271 are venturing into the woods to hunt the animals before hauling them back as a welcome substitute from the pre packaged Meals Ready to Eat.'It was delicious, I don't know if it was because we were eating MRE's for two months, but everyone has enjoyed it a lot, said Corporal Joshua Wicksell age 26.

<p>One of the most oft-heard criticisms of what the whole world is watching in Iraq is that the American superpower is "going it alone."</p> <p>Going it alone? I guess so. America has been "going it alone" since about 1776. Or maybe it was 1492.</p>

Barbecue's fatty fumes add to haze - Rice research shows fine particles matter By DINA CAPPIELLO Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle Environment Writer When folks say Texans live and breathe barbecue, they really mean it. In a study about to be published, scientists at Rice University have measured the tiny bits of polyunsaturated fatty acids created by cooking meat. These fine particles -- mixed with the diesel exhaust, car fumes and road dust that make up soot in Houston's air -- can lodge in people's lungs and contribute to the city's haze. But while Houstonians have long joked about the "smell...

<p>Sacramento -- In Sacramento, black tie is out, blue jeans are in. Elaborate staging is giving way to recycled backdrops. All-out partying is a thing of the past. Thanking supporters is all the rage.</p> <p>Gov. Gray Davis will ring in his second term starting Saturday with low-key affairs befitting the state's hard economic times and in sharp contrast to the lavish soiree he hosted four years ago.</p>

<p>No hanging chads or lost ballots in this one, but barbecue lovers in western North Carolina are crying foul -- or maybe pork.</p> <p>A survey conducted by VisitNC.com picked Eastern-style barbecue as the best in the land. With more than 6,000 voters weighing in, 57 percent picked Eastern style and 43 percent chose the Western style.</p>