Hey, those Memphis in May BBQ cookoffs are spectacular. Great food right on the Mississippi.
The best thing they fix in Memphis is those dry-rub ribs. Remind me a lot of the ones my dad used to fix. He rubbed 'em with black pepper, salt, ground sage, and a little ground red pepper. Cooked 'em slow on chicken-wire stretched over a pit of oak coals out behind the cow barn. No sauce needed. None better in any restaurant anywhere.