Below you'll find a list of all posts from April, 2009
by Paul Ross Alabama Barbecue, c. 1890s Photograph by Mary Morgan Keipp (1875-1961) of Selma. Keipp was known internationally for her documentation of rural African American life in the Black Belt around the turn of the twentieth century. Courtesy: Encyclopedia of Alabama. Recipes: Almost Dreamland’s BBQ Sauce Big Bob Gibson’s Hickory-Smoked Chicken with White Sauce Almost …
By Dave DeWitt The Hallowed Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota Your always adventurous editor was recently selected as the only judge at the annual Albuquerque Press Club Spam-Fest. At first I was apprehensive because Spam is not a favorite food of mine, but then the organizers promised free bar privileges, so I had no choice but to judge …
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 …
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 …
By Mark Preston and Paul W. Bosland Editor’s Note: (First published in October, 1994) Let’s put this absurdity to rest right now. Despite all the mass media hype and paranoia, there is not one bit of credible evidence linking chile peppers with causing any type of cancer. Period. Remember the (disproved) cranberry cancer scandal, the alar in apples fraud, and …
