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By Alexander Edwin Sweet and John Armoy Knox Accompanied by the reporter, we left San Antonio in the gray dawn of a summer morning. The reporter was going to Eagle Pass on professional business, and we agreed to travel together. First, however, it was necessary that the reporter should attend a barbecue, held some ten miles from the city. The …
By John R. Watkins, Photos by Howe, Atlanta, Georgia No one who has had the good fortune to attend a barbecue will ever forget it. The smell of it all, the meat slowly roasting to a delicious brown over smoking fires, the hungry and happy crowds waiting in patience until the spits are turned for the last time, and …
How to Plank a Shad by James Hoyt, 1904 You have been told so often how to plank a shad that it seems idle for me to talk about it at all. But there are planked shad and planked shad, and you know nothing of the properly prepared delicacy until you try it in the Thompson mode. The oaken …
By Robert and Mary Steele The second election of General Jackson to the Presidency was celebrated in Dayton on the 8th of January, 1833, by a barbecue on the common west of the basin, now Cooper Park. National salutes were fired during the day. Immediately on the arrival at noon of a canal-boat with from fifty to one hundred …
by Horace Smith & Samuel Wordsworth The other day the people of Logan County, West Virginia, held a great barbecue to celebrate the division of the county. Tables were spread in the street and all traffic was suspended. Hundreds of stalwart mountaineers came in with their wives and children from the region roundabout. Eight big black bears had been …
