it's time to teach these italians a thing or two about food and thus began my disastrous attempt to make american barbecue for a whole bunch of hungry italians this video is proudly sponsored by butcherbox visit the link in the description because new members receive ground beef in every box for the lifetime of their membership back in march my wife ava and i were visiting her family in calabria italy we'd been there for a couple of months and i was just treated to the most amazing food day after day they made incredibly delicious dishes for me and i was starting to feel like i wanted to give back to them a little bit i wanted to share some of my culture and i'm not gonna lie i wanted to show off that i had some tricks up my sleeve too i decided to go with barbecue the reason being that it's ava's favorite food in america she's a barbecue junkie i figured if she would like it her family would probably like it now here's the thing i'm an expert at eating barbecue but i'd only ever cooked it once i smoked a pork butt on this tiny little crappy grill but it came out amazing ava even said that it was the best meat of her life and she doesn't lie about food to be polite so i was feeling pretty chuffed with myself at the time pretty confident and so when i decided to cook barbecue for a whole bunch of people i thought i've got this down no problem so i ordered a smoker it arrived in the mail and i was ready to begin
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