According to the OC Register, the delayed opening of gourmet grocer Dean & DeLuca has been cancelled permanently.

Nice timing on the annoucement, food Grinches. May Santa leave reindeer turds in your stockings.

A Denver marijuana dispensary has opened the country’s first restaurant with a menu laced with pot.  The Ganja Gourmet sells brownies,  chocolates,  lasagna, and a goat cheese and sausage pizza.  Let’s hope their ganja cookery tastes better than those oddly green, haybale-tasting brownies you made in college.

Colorado is one of the states that allows medical marijuana patients to buy pot with a doctor’s recommendation, so all customers must have their doctor’s permission before ordering anything off the menu. The Associated Press reports that goat cheese and sausage pizza sells for $89, which might make it the most expensive pizza in the county.  I wonder if I can just buy a slice and sprinkle on a little extra “oregano” from the shaky jar instead?

Trickest tailgating vehicle ever, if you’re young, male, and Asian. Two out of three ain’t bad in my case.

Kogi BBQ Scion

Toyota built a show car with a built in grill, refrigerator, and sink for the 2009 car show circuit inspired by their friends at the Kogi BBQ truck. See the story at the LA Times

After all these years of torturing you with pretty photos from my barbecue contests, I sincerely hope you’ve had the chance to go to one in person and eat the great food that my contest peers cook.

If you haven’t been to one, tune in to BBQ Pitmasters, TLC’s brand new series that airs tonight at 10pm across all time zones.  It’ll give an insider’s view of  competition BBQ at some of the biggest contests in America.

My friends Harry Soo and Mark Tung of Slap Yo’ Daddy BBQ, featuring pit bitch Gary Notley star in this series. They’re the only team from west of Texas cast for the show, and will be challenging some of the behemoths of the contest BBQ world. Harry and Mark came out of nowhere two years ago, and have won one grand champion title after another. There’s no journalistic detachment on this one – I’ll be rooting for Slap Yo’ Daddy all the way!