Remembering the Missing History of Barbecue | Dr Howard Conyers

When asked for their best piece of advice, many BBQ pitmasters will pause, reflect, and say ‘Relax, it’s not rocket science.’ Except, sometimes it is. Such is the case for Dr Howard Conyers, a pitmaster from South Carolina, currently living in Louisiana. Why Louisiana? Because by day, Dr Conyers is a rocket scientist for NASA. Yep, during the week he sends rockets worth countless millions of dollars hurtling through space, and on the weekends, cooks whole hog in the most traditional of ways and teaching the missing history of barbecue on his family farm as part of The 100 Acres Project. Dr Conyers is truly a Guardian of BBQ and The 100 Acres Project is an initiative of his BBQ operation, Conyers Family BBQ. Cooking under his own name is a right that was denied his ancestors and this is the driving motivation behind everything Dr Conyers does. 

In this full episode of the Smoking Hot Confessions BBQ Podcast, Dr Conyers and I get into:

• Life as a NASA Rocket Scientist (1:18)
• The story behind his BBQ nickname ‘The Guardian of Tradition’ (7:43)
• Creating the Kingsford Preserve the Pit Program (15:07)
• The Conyers Family BBQ LLC (25:34)
• The Hundred Acres Project (36:40)
• Dr Conyers’ lesson on the missing history of barbecue (46:34)

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