Jeremy at the market with the full variety of crackers on display
Henry Spivey serving a Thanksgiving turkey
Curtis Spivey’s home-build smoker
That makes Jeremy Spivey the 3rd generation "meat head" in his family. His passion for making BBQ began tending the late-night hickory wood bonfire with his Dad that would produce the coals to pit-smoke hams and shoulders for those annual BBQs. Those long nights at the open pit taught him the patience needed to wait for the perfect time to take the meat off the smoker. He proudly continues this process today on that home-build trailer smoker and uses the same principles to make mouth-watering BBQ and snacks.
A BBQ Family
Henry Spivey served in WWII as an Army cook in Greenland and the Philippines. Before and after the war, he was a butcher and farmer. He raised two boys, Curtis and Richard, who would grow up in the meat market and learn the trade. Curtis began the tradition of hosting an annual BBQ for his friends and family in 1974, a couple of months before Jeremy was born. Years later, Curtis would build a trailer smoker that would be used to further the BBQ craft and eventually smoke the first Spivey-Q crackers.