Snapple Big Apple Barbecue Block Party June 14, 2009

The 'Snapple Big Apple Barbecue' is an annual weekend-long event in June that brings together the country's top pitmasters who cook up their award-winning food for over a hundred thousand barbecue enthusiasts in and around Madison Square Park. The event also includes a fantastic line up of music, seminars, cooking demos, merchandise and more. Plates of barbecue are sold directly at the pitmaster's rigs, and flags indicate the beginning of the line for each purveyor. Only cash (or FastPasses) is accepted. This event supports the Madison Square Park Conservancy.