Reprise of the slow-cooker pulled pork I've made a couple times as we're having friends over tonight. This time, I took roughly three pounds of pork, about 10% of it fat, and rubbed it with pestle-ground black and sichuan pepper mixed with salt. Tossed into a bag with a few dashes of black Chinese vinegar (up there with balsamic for best vinegar I've ever tasted), some dark mushroom soy sauce, flat Coca Cola, coffee dregs and grounds from my morning coffee in the French press, some star anise, bay, and a couple dried chilis. Marinated overnight, then tossed it in the slow cooker this morning on top of a rough-chopped onion and some more Coca Cola. It'll be sandwiches on toasted Uighur soda bread in the northwestern Chinese style with some good old American barbecue sauce and chopped onions. When I get home this evening, I'll take out the pork after about ten hours of cooking and toss some salt, pepper, and soy sauce marinated chicken wings in the juices and seasonings from the pork in the slow cooker for the last hour before everyone arrives. Corn on the cob on the side and homebrewed beer (of course!) to wash it all down.