Barbecue Wire

Portland's Salvage BBQ, South Portland's Elsmere BBQ & Wood Grill and Bangor's soon-to-open Whistling Pig Smokehouse are part of a Maine "barbecue trend," writes Kathleen Pierce of the Bangor Daily News. Accompanying the story is a short video in which Salvage owner Jay Villani fires up the smoker at 4 a.m. and talks barbecue process: "There's a little bit of an art and a little bit of a science to it, and a ton of tomfoolery." [BDN]