The Roanoker - September / October 2018 - 89
written by SHARI DRAGOVICH
photographed by JOHN PARK
AS A SOUTHERN STAPLE, GREAT
BARBEQUE IS NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY.
THE OWNERS AT DUE SOUTH HAVE
EMBRACED-AND SUCCEEDED AT-THE
CHALLENGES IN BOTH MEAT AND SAUCES.
W
HEN MARIE AND JARED MARCH moved from South Carolina
to Christiansburg 13 years ago, they loved most everything about
the area and its people. But one thing had them scratching their
heads: there was no barbeque joint. It was a confusion that Marie
set out to remedy almost immediately.
Both Jared and Marie were graduates of Clemson and both were package
engineers. After 10 years of the engineering life, Jared decided to pursue his first
passion, medicine. He applied and was accepted to Virginia Tech's Osteopathic
School of Medicine, hence the family's northerly move.
Back in South Carolina, the Marches had learned the fine art of wood-smoked
barbeque. Under the careful tutelage of an older gentleman, the couple developed
and refined all the finer points of excellent barbeque, from rib cut to mustard
rub. With deep generational roots in all things hog, Marie says learning the
intricacies of wood-smoked barbeque felt natural to her.
"I'm originally from Kingsport, Tennessee," explains Marie. "I have ancestors with
pig pickin' roots. Putting up hogs, talking about it ... these were always a staple."
Within months of living in Christiansburg without barbeque, coupled with
hitting multiple dead ends in her own job search, Marie began to imagine
bringing barbeque to Christiansburg.
"We made every mistake when we first opened," laughs Marie, her southern
drawl and warm, self-deprecating nature inviting me into the hilarity of those
early rough months. Between a severe underestimation of staffing needs,
homemade, puffy paint t-shirts, septic issues and an embarrassing snafu with
the smoked turkeys the first Thanksgiving they took custom orders, it seems a
wonder they stayed open.
Almost.
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