A Horse with No Shame One of the greatest legends of our time, our namesake‘s origin is as much a mystery as his whereabouts today. Some say Dusty lived on a farm owned by the local druggist in the town of Hope. It was said this pharmacist was the best in the Fraser Valley, and upon Dusty‘ s untimely passing, the kindly druggist had him stuffed and placed in front of his store. Others believe Dusty was a Hollywood stunt horse. His trainers were forced to shoot poor Dusty when he threw a certain rock-star-turned-actress in the middle of her solo. It is said that Dusty, a rockand-roll horse at heart, couldn‘t take it when the star began singing that Broadway tune. The actress had Dusty stuffed. At any rate, when Dusty rode into Whistler in 1979, in the back of a Chevy half-ton, he was definitely dead and stuffed. So everyone thought. He was installed in a corner of this very establishment, and for almost a decade joined the skiers and partied as one of them. One full moon Friday, a female partier, stripped naked and with reckless abandon leaped upon Dusty‘s back! At that very moment, Dusty sprung to life, burst through the doors and galloped into the night, casually tossing his would-be Lady Godiva into a snowbank. Was it the full moon, a flashback, or just the tequila fumes? No one can say for sure.
There’s food... and then there’s barbecue.
Barbecue is neither art nor science, barbecue is passion. The process of rubbing cuts of meat with secret spices, gently painting them with sauce so good you’d drink it from the bottle and cooking them slow’n’low is nothing short of magic. Here in Whistler, Canada, Dusty’s authentic barbecue is brought to you by the award-wining Dusty’s Barbecue Team. After a 30-restaurant, 9-meal-a-day tour of the southern U.S. in search of the secrets of barbecue, the “Kids From The North” finally brought home the beef!
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August 3-5, 2012