Gerry Dawes & Friends, WPWL 103.7, Pawling Public Radio July 24, 2018 Great Barbecue Pitmaster Interviews - Part II Chris Lilly & Amy Mills from The Big Apple BBQ Block Party 2018

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Chris Lilly of Big Bob Gibson's Barbecue (Decatur, Alabama) and Danny Meyer (President of the Union Square Hospitality Group and co-owner of Blue Smoke, NYC), co-founders with Mike Mills and Amy Mills (17th Street Barbecue, Murphysboro, Illinois) of annual The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in New York City.  

Gerry Dawes & Friends Chris Lilly Interview July 24, 2018 WPWL Pawling (NY) Public Radio from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

 Mike Mills and Amy Mills (17th Street Barbecue, Murphysboro, Illinois) at the annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in New York City.  

Gerry Dawes & Friends Amy Mills 17th Street BBQ Interview July 24, 2018 from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

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Gerry Dawes & Friends, WPWL 103.7, Pawling Public Radio July 17, 2018 Great Barbecue Pitmaster Interviews with Ubon's Gary Roark, photographer Ken Goodman, Mike Mills and Ole Hickory Pit's Dave Knight from The Big Apple BBQ Block Party 2018 Plus Gerry Dawes's Enhanced, Embellished, Improved And Outrageously Delicious Evolved World's Greatest Margarita Recipe

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Big Apple BBQ Block Party 2018 Gary Roark, Ubon's; Photographer Ken Goodman; "The Legend" Mike Mills; Dave Knight, Ole Hickory Pits. from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

The July 17 edition of Gerry Dawes &Friends featured a theme near and dear to my heart, real, authentic pit barbecue, the kind I grew up with in Southern Illinois.  As a matter of fact, one of the great legends of American Barbecue—and we are not talking about grilling out back on the barbie here—is man named Mike “The Legend” Mills, whose flagship barbecue restaurant, 17th Street Bar & Grill, is in Murphysboro, Illinois, which is some 350 miles southwest of Chicago, below the Mason-Dixon line and the town where I happened to have been born, back in the pre-history.

This program features exclusive interviews with Mike Mills and with the incredible Gary Roark of Ubon’s Barbecue, Ubon’s Sauce and Ubon’s Bloody Mary Mix in Yazoo, Mississippi, who is one of the funniest guys I have ever met and a star on the national BBQ circuit.  Listening to Gary Roark telling, with a straight face (he would be crushed if you doubted him) about a guy picking up a dime off the street with a fork lift, doing his Little Mike, Michael Jackson backward Moonwalk and breaking his wrist in Chicago (“cause I got the Boogie in me!” and “when I hear music, it has to come out.” 

Also featured are celebrity photographer Ken Goodman talking about Mike Mills and his daughter Amy and the great David Knight, producer of the Ole Hickory Pit Barbecue Pits, which are used by most of the great barbecue pitmasters and are now even sold abroad.  Dave Knight is from Cape Girardeau, Missouri.  Gerry’s Dishes World’s Greatest Margarita from the book Peace, Love &  Barbecue, which Mike Mills did with his daughter, Amy Mills, in which this Margartia recipe and stories about me are featured.

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The Chapter about Gerry Dawes & his World's Finest Barbecue Margarita in Peace, Love & Barbecue by Mike Mills & Amy Mills 

Gerry Dawes's Enhanced, Embellished, Improved And Outrageously Delicious Evolved World's Greatest Margarita Recipe from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

Gerry Dawes & Friends, WPWL Pawling Public Radio July 17^th, 2018

Gerry’s Dishes: World’s Finest Barbecue-Friendly Margarita

(Base recipe originally appeared in Peace, Love & Barbecue by Mike Mills & Amy Mills)

 Gerry Dawes, Gary Roark of Ubon's in Yazoo City, MS and Dave Knight, 
Ole Hickory Pits, Cape Girardeau, MO, Big Apple Block Party 2018, Madison Square Park, NYC

 

Kay Balun & Celebrity Photographer Ken Goodman at 

The Big Apple Block Party 2018, Madison Square Park, NYC

 

The Legend Mike Mills and his daughter Amy Mills of 17th Street Barbecue, Murphysboro, IL.  Amy is posing with her latest book, Praise The Lard.

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Gerry Dawes & Friends Pawling (NY) Public Radio July 10, 2018 Guest Former New York Times Restaurant Critic Bryan Miller with Music from his former band, The Pinballs

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Gerry Dawes & Friends Pawling (NY) Public Radio July 10, 2018 Guest Bryan Miller with Music from his former band, The Pinballs from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

Gerry Dawes & Friends on WPWL Pawling (NY) Public Radio. My guest was former New York Times Restaurant Critic Bryan J. Miller, who also used to have a Zydeco band called The Pinballs, two of whose former players are now in Bruce Springsteen's 'E' Street Band. Plus we talked about the trips to Spain he and I have taken together and during the Gerry's Dishes segment, I gave the recipes for White Almond Gazpacho and Watermelon Sangria (recipes to follow).

Gerry Dawes & Friends WPWL Pawling (NY) Public Radio Rozanne Gold & Michael Whiteman July 3, 2018

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Gerry Dawes & Friends WPWL Pawling (NY) Public Radio Rozanne Gold & Michael Whiteman July 3, 2018 from Gerry Dawes on Vimeo.

One of my best shows to date: two of the great icons of the New York gastronomic world, cookbook author and culinary personality Rozanne Gold and her husband Michael Whiteman, who was the legendary Joe Baum's partner at Windows on the World, Rainbow Room and Aurora, among others and still is the President of the Joseph Baum Michael Whiteman International Restaurants Consultants who advise restaurant and hotel projects worldwide. 

Tonight's recipe was not from Gerry's Dishes. The recipe was Pork with Tomatoes and Gin, from guest Rozanne Gold's Radically Simple cookbook.