
Hickory Pit Rub
Junior Deese
Robeson County, North Carolina
Junior mixes his in a dishpan and stores it in the same coffee tin his daddy used, dented on one side from a fall off the tailgate.
- smoky
- pork shoulder
- coarse
Dry rubs and spice blends built for smoke and fire. Paprika-heavy pork rubs, coffee-black brisket blends, and lighter poultry mixes are all ground in small runs. Each tin comes from a pitmaster who worked it out over long nights.
A rub is a family's fingerprint. Some folks lean on paprika, some on salt, some on a secret they'll carry off with them. These come from smokehouses and kitchens where the tin was refilled, never replaced.

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Junior Deese
Robeson County, North Carolina
Junior mixes his in a dishpan and stores it in the same coffee tin his daddy used, dented on one side from a fall off the tailgate.

Aunt Vada's Kitchen
Coffee County, Tennessee
Heavy on brown sugar so the ribs build a crust dark as bark by hour four.

Otho Beale
Bolivar County, Mississippi
Built for a cast-iron skillet hot enough to scare the neighbors, and for catfish pulled out of the levee ponds.