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My happiest times are when my mother visits from Seoul and teaches me how to cook the Korean dishes that I grew up with. She has a completely idiosyncratic way of measuring ingredients: "put water into the rice cooker until it reaches the first fold of your wrist when you bend your hand." Of course it works perfectly every time! Then we get to eat and reminisce as the culmination of our hours of hard work.

Blue Ribbon in Arlington, MA if I'm anywhere north of Tennessee. Otherwise, I just can't pick.

But I LOVED both Kreuz Market and the Salt Lick. Mmmmm

Big W's Roadside BBQ in Pawling, NY

I grew up in North Carolina and by far my favorite was Troutman's Barbecue in Denton, NC for the perfect chopped plate. When I moved to Huntsville, AL, I became a Big Bob Gibson's fan - but it's apples and oranges as far as styles go.

Daisy May's; R.U.B. a close second.

R.U.B = YUM