Our friends at Pork Barrel BBQ need your help!

Photo by Emily Clack

Pork Barrel BBQ and the USO need your support! They are traveling to Fort Riley Army Base next Thursday, October 7th, to join Rod and Sheri Gray of the Pellet Envy BBQ Team, the reigning Kansas City Barbecue Society Team of the Year, to cook for the soldiers and families of Fort Riley, Kansas.

The USO facility at Fort Riley just opened in May and has already had their 10,000th visitor - it's an important place for our men and women in uniform and their families to relax while on base. Due to budget cuts, the Fort Riley USO facility had to scrap their plans to create an outdoor BBQ area for soldiers to gather and share a meal with their fellow soldiers.

Here's where you come in - we want to raise the money to fully fund the construction of the Fort Riley USO outdoor patio/BBQ area - but we need to raise $5,000 by Thursday, October 7th!

Pork Barrel BBQ is kicking in $1,000 and their amazing business partner from the ABC's and Mark Burnett's reality show Shark Tank, New York real estate mogul and author Barbara Corcoran has donated $1,000 - so we need they help today to get the rest of the way to our goal!

Here are two ways to help:

Donate $25 by clicking this link, or the image below - and 100 percent of your contribution will go to the USO to build the Fort Riley facility. For your generosity, we'll send you a FREE collectors edition Pork Barrel BBQ tin of All American Spice Rub.

Donate $100 or more by clicking this link or the image below - 100 percent of your contribution will go to the USO and we'll send you both a FREE collectors edition Pork Barrel BBQ tin of All American Spice Rub and a FREE Limited Edition Pork Barrel BBQ hat!

Want to donate more than $100? Please give Heath or Brett a call at (888) 4 PORK BARREL (476-7522) and they will process your donation and feature you on their Pork Barrel BBQ Blog.

Photo by Duane Heaton

So DON'T WAIT - the USO and the soldiers at Fort Riley need your support TODAY!

More fun Food gifts: Pork Barrel BBQ

Support a local DC company and give the gift of BBQ!
Brett, Heath and I at the Metro Show
Pork Barrel has sauce now too!

Photos by Shauna Alexander

Check out one of the Newest Episodes of Capital Cooking: Thrill of the Grill!

Thrill of the Grill from Capital Cooking on Vimeo.

Thrill of the Grill: Learn the art of grilling peaches topped with homemade mascarpone ice cream and vegetable ratatouille with Lauren DeSantis and the help of our special guests Heath and Brett from Pork Barrel BBQ. Catch this web version now (for a limited time) and watch the television show on CoLours TV.

The music for Capital Cooking was provided by:
Jazzy Blu
Dominic Taylor, Mark Matthews III, Roger Brown, Leslie Lee and Jackie Brown
www.thejazzyblu.com

Special thanks to our editor and director Nick Szpara!

Support for this episode was provided in part by:

Pork Barrel BBQ

Le Creuset
www.lecreuset.com

Screwpull
www.screwpull.com

Cuisinart
www.cuisinart.com

Cutco
www.cutco.com

Ame Cosmetics
P.O. Box 7420
Largo, MD 20794
www.Amecosmetics.com

DeSantis Productions, LLC

Pork Barrel BBQ Ribbon Cutting

Ribbon Cutting
Large Scissors
Dig
Mascots
Model Restaurant
Pork Sliders for everyone
Nice bus for traveling competitions
Moving right along. Pork Barrel Restaurant is scheduled to open in Spring 2010! Congratulations Brett and Heath.

Check our Pork Barrel BBQ on Fox!

Heath and Brett are on a roll...opening a new restaurant, appearing on ABC's Shark Tank and appearing as special guests on Fox! Pork Barrel BBQ is off to a fantastic start. Be sure to check them out on Capital Cooking's new episode: Thrill of the Grill. Coming soon! Congrats Heath and Brett!

Capital Cooking guests will be on Shark Tank this Sunday!

Be sure to watch Pork Barrel BBQ's Heath Hall and Brett Thompson battle with the Sharks on Shark Tank on ABC Sunday, September 13th at 9pm EST/8pm CST! To learn more about Pork Barrel BBQ, visit www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com.

Pork Barrel BBQ: All American Spice Rub and BBQ Sauce

Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and All American Spice Rub are now available in 65 stores in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina and Florida. For pork, beef, poultry and fish, our Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce and All American Spice Rub is the perfect way to give your food a tangy, tasty flavor with a perfect smokin' kick! Pork Barrel BBQ is now available at Harris Teeter, Ukrop's, Balducci's Food Lover's Market, Wagshals, Let's Meat on the Avenue, The Organic Butcher of McLean, and The Art of BBQ (in St. Augustine, Florida)! Catch Heath and Brett on Capital Cooking's Thrill of the Grill episode soon!!
Photo by Shauna Alexander

Fun Filming Weekend: Thrill of the Grill

Thrill of the Grill: Learn the art of grilling peaches topped with homemade mascarpone ice cream and vegetable ratatouille with the help of our special guests Heath Hall and Brett Thompson from Pork Barrel BBQ. We will smoke some tasty BBQ!

Pork Barrel BBQ: All American Spice Rub

Check out this All American Spice Rub! This will be perfect for your summer barbecues. It is also the perfect gift for Father's Day. Capital Cooking will be using this All American Spice Rub on our BBQ episode this summer and we'll teach you some delicious recipes that you don't want to miss.

Perfect for meat, poultry, fish and veggies! This all purpose rub adds bipartisan flavor to any meal.

Not only does our All American Spice Rub taste great - but it is all natural and contains no preservatives and no MSG. The tins are made here in the U.S., and contain recycled steel and are fully recyclable. The labels are printed with soy ink, and the rub is manufactured locally in Virginia to reduce its carbon footprint. Now whats more bipartisan than that?

Quantity Discounts: 1-2 tins - $8.00 per tin 3-10 tins - $7.50 per tin 11-50 tins - $7.00 per tin 51-100 tins - $6.50 per tin 101 or more tins - $6.00 per tin