SmokinAPhattie.com Adds More Sizzle With Their New Spokesperson -- Phemme Phatale -- Dotty Griffith

Social Media Investments` SmokinAPhattie.com adds Dotty Griffith to Barbecue team. SmokinAPhattie.com`s members and visitors will benefit from Dotty`s considerable expertise on cooking with smoke and fire through her smokin` hot blogs, forums, newsletter articles, various reviews, interviews and barbecue reports.

Frisco, TX (PRWEB) May 16, 2007 -- Social Media Investments (SMI) started with a simple vision; share their passion for barbeque with enthusiasts everywhere. SMI developed a community-based web experience that allows barbecue "phanatics" to share their ideas, recipes, pictures, comments and tips and tricks with others that possess the same culinary obsession. The website, SmokinAPhattie.com, is uniquely positioned as one of the first social networking platforms on the internet devoted to food, cooking and all that is barbecue.

SMI designed SmokinAPhattie.com to be a unique experience, one that barbecuers could not find anywhere else. SmokinAPhattie.com`s visitors have access to up-to-the-minute news, a calendar of events, a large database of recipes and the Phattie merchandise store. When visitors become members, known as "Phattie Phanatics," they can participate in forums, blogs, groups, promotions and spectacular giveaways. The site and its features have received rave reviews from the barbecue community and associated industry observers.

SMI`s goal is to constantly provide "Phattie Phanatics" with new and exciting features that heighten their experience and site interactivity. SMI wanted to find a spokespersonality that would add more zest, zing and flair to the website. SMI realized that Dotty Griffith, the undisputed "Queen of Barbecue," would be the perfect fit for SmokinAPhattie.com.

As former food editor and restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News, Dotty Griffith brings a lifetime of food journalism and in-depth culinary knowledge to SmokinAPhattie.com. Dotty is a well known BBQ judge, and author of Celebrating Barbecue: The Ultimate Guide to America`s 4 Regional Styles of `Cue.

SmokinAPhattie.com`s members and visitors will benefit from Dotty`s considerable expertise on cooking with smoke and fire through her smokin` hot blogs, forums, newsletter articles, various reviews, interviews and barbecue reports. Never shy and always opinionated, she will spark conversation and probably controversy about sauces, rubs, cookers and all things `cue. In Dotty`s words, "Barbecue isn`t just a major food group, it`s a way of life."

Dotty looks forward to providing the world with more sizzle and smoke, and her addition to the Phattie team is sure to put SmokinAPhattie.com on the forefront of the barbecue scene. Be on the look out for Dotty Griffith and the "Phattie Philm Crew" at the nation`s most competitive barbecue cook offs, including the Memphis in May World Championship Barbeque Cooking Contest, 28th Annual American Royal Barbecue and the Best in the West Nugget Rib Cook-off. So, come see what`s cookin` at http://www.smokinaphattie.com.