Marlando Cason on “Big Moe’s Big Book of BBQ”

“I evolved, you know, when I was growing up, I love cooking, but I didn’t want it to be my main thing.”

Welcome Big Moe Cason

We’re joined on the Starline by a veteran of the USS Missouri, former water treatment operator and then he had a hankering for a challenge. So he faced off against some of the most famous pit-masters in America and won. His book is “Big Moe’s Big Book of BBQ”. We welcome Marlando “Big Moe” Cason.

Moe, let’s go Beyond the Mic. 75 tasty recipes passed down through your family and you were a water treatment operator? Why didn’t you start cooking from the get go?

What is the one mistake most rookie pit-masters make?

The Rockin’ 8:

It’s time for the Rockin’ 8, 8 random questions, answer with the first thing that comes to your mind. There is no Pressure.

1. Best thing about Grandma Margaret?

2. One thing you love about Des Moines, Iowa?

3. How do you eat corn up and down or side to side?

4. What was your first pit and do you still have it?

5. Last road trip you took in your 1969 Dodge Superbee?

6. How do you drink your coffee? 

7. As a pit-master you like smoke, so what’s your favorite cigar?

8. Biggest Bull Red you have ever caught?

Sneaking in One More:

How has your kids helped you on this road and what do you want for their future?  

Two Sizzling Questions:

Who was the one person in the Navy that helped you make you the man you are today?

What’s the one thing you are still trying to perfect cooking?

Where can people find you online?

The Wrap:

“Big Moe” eats his corn from side to side, doesn’t have his 1st pit and wants you to read his book “Big Moe’s Big Book of BBQ”. We thank Marlando Cason for taking the time to talk with us today.

WRECK EM! I’ll see you down the road my friend.

And that my friends is a Beyond the Mic Short Cut.

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