We recently connected with Leroy Hite and have shared our conversation below. Hi Leroy, thanks for joining us today. One of the things we most admire about small businesses is their ability to diverge from the corporate/industry standard. Is there something that you or your brand do that differs from the industry standard? We’d love…

CEO Leroy Hite received the 40 UNDER 40 award for the Atlanta Business Chronicle for founding Cutting Edge Firewood

Atlanta Business Chronicle is proud to spotlight the next generation of business leaders. 40 people under the age of 40 who are making significant career achievements and demonstrating social responsibility. Join us for cocktails, dinner and a beautiful celebration with the 2022 class of 40 under 40 honorees.

Wells Adams and Daniele Uditi are up for a little saucy competition as they host #BestInDough, a brand new pizza competition show. Stream it on September 19! Watch the trailer now!

Leroy Hite and Ryan Lane on FOX 5 Atlanta talking about smoking woods, BBQ, Rubs and Sauces.

Ryan Lane of Lanes BBQ talks BBQ, smoking wood, rubs and sauces with Fox 5.

If the ash is from a fresh fire, wait until it is completely cooled to avoid personal injury as well as damage to plants, according to Cutting Edge Firewood. Most flowerbeds do well with just a thin layer sprinkled on top or mixed directly into the soil. Mixing it with water to create a sprayable…

In Episode 022, Taryn speaks with Samantha Ferraro from Little Ferraro Kitchen about outdoor pizza ovens! Samantha talks about things she’s learned by venturing into pizza oven cooking, gives some tips and tricks for if you’re thinking about getting an outdoor pizza oven, and goes over some really delicious recipes she’s tried out in her…

Leroy Hite is the founder of Cutting Edge Firewood, a company dedicated to providing the finest firewood and cooking wood delivered direct to the consumer. Leroy started the business in 2013 and the story of his journey is most fascinating. He and his wife took a gamble on themselves and an idea and that gamble…

He's not only the world's best dad—he's also the world's best husband. These meaningful Father's Day gift ideas from a wife will show him just how much you love him.

What kind of charcoal and wood should you actually be using to impart the best flavor for grilling this summer? Don’t worry if you’re feeling overwhelmed. Here’s an outline of the various ways you can fuel your charcoal grill.

This Father’s Day, dads, stepdads, granddads, fathers-in-law and other father-figures out there have never had it so good. As the US (and most of the rest of the world) are now emerging from two years of on-again, off-again lockdowns, dads are actively looking to get back out there. So, Worth has canvassed the market to bring its readers…

We had the good fortune of connecting with Leroy Hite and we’ve shared our conversation below. "My junior year at Berry College, I participated in their new entrepreneurial program. I started a different firewood company, caught the entrepreneurial bug and saw a glimpse of what would later become my vision for Cutting Edge Firewood. I…

As a dad—and one who loves to cook—there are few things that I enjoy more than breaking out the grill for dinner. Whether I'm cooking up meaty main dishes, veggie-packed sides, or even a sweet dessert, there's just something about standing over an open flame (usually with a beer in hand), listening to music and…

People who don’t regularly burn wood are unfamiliar with how much wood is in a “cord,” a unit of measurement describing a volume of wood. Woodcutters and those who burn wood in fireplaces or wood stoves intimately know this term, as they know how many cords of wood they need to make it through winter.…

Our family has had many great conversations sitting in front of a fire and it can be such a rejeuvinating time, especially when devices are left behind. We have shared so many wonderful evenings as a family this way and I recommend it for yours, too. If your favorite guy loves to unwind by the…

I love a good gadget—an oven that can self-adjust to bake better bread, a blender that cleans itself, a tricked out espresso maker that can foam milk while I’m in the other room wiping up whatever breakfast my children threw on the floor. And yet, the most fun I’ve had cooking in quite some time…

Here are 14 grilling gifts, from tools to grills to mail-order meat that our editors love, and that your dad will love too.

You may be ready to barbecue this summer, but is your barbecue actually ready? It’s very likely coated in a thick layer of cooked-on food and grease that can make you sick or even start a fire. To help you figure out how to get your BBQ grill in proper working order, we’ve consulted a…

We’ll talk through this in more detail in this post about the best wood for pizza ovens. We’ll give you some tips and tricks for getting the most out of your wood, and we’ll also tell you our favorite places to buy it online – places who deliver it to your door pre-prepped, cut to…

Southwest Gwinnett Magazine covers the Gwinnett County cities of Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake and Duluth, Georgia. We aim to provide our...

Learn these simple but effective steps for starting a fire in a fire pit, so you can enjoy the ambience and warmth in the outdoors.

Another tie or pair of socks? Meh. Show dad how much you love and appreciate him (and see him!) on Father's Day with a truly thoughtful and unique gift this year. Even if he says he doesn’t need or want anything new, our list of the best gifts for dad has something just right for…

As diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) becomes a top priority, businesses are having to find new and innovative ways to grow their brands, all while recovering from the effects of the pandemic. This was the focus of a recent Publisher’s Forum among Atlanta business leaders, moderated by David Rubinger, market president and publisher of the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Dozens of nationally recognized pitmasters from as far away as Alabama and Tennessee will reunite in Astoria at Pig Beach BBQ’s new location for a full-day meat smokin’ extravaganza reunion for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.