by Dave DeWitt Who woulda thunk it? Barbecue was the subject of a serious (somewhat) and academic (sorta) symposium at the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi in Oxford in October, 2002, entitled “Barbecue: Smoke, Sauce, and History.” I had not been to Mississippi in 32 years, so I was really looking forward to my return to the …
Barbecue and the C-Word
by Dave DeWitt and Nancy Gerlach Excerpted from The Barbecue Inferno (Ten Speed Press, 2001) Since everything we love to ingest is bad for us these days, it should come as no surprise that the “experts” are busy linking grilling and smoking to cancer. Grilling and smoking pollute the air (is that an odor or a fragrance?), so we outdoor …
Flypaper & Foie Gras
A Tale of Two Barbecue Restaurants By Rick Browne, PH.B. Recipes Barbecued Lamb Ribs Creamy Mac & Cheese Southern Skillet Cornbread with Tangerine Butter BUBBA’S BBQ JOINT—The front door is unpainted, broken, hanging on one hinge, and has Band-Aids covering rips in the screen, or maybe it doesn’t even have a door. “Y’all welcome to Bubba’s,” someone yells out from …