Barbecue Stand Near Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1940

Georgia: Home of U.S. BBQ?

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Georgia is probably the native home of the barbecue, but it spread thence to most of the Southern and Southwestern States, and has even invaded some of the Northern ones. Georgia, however, still retains its supremacy as the Barbecue State. “The barbecue is to Georgia,” says D. Allen Willey, in the Home-Maker’s Magazine for December, 1896, ” what the clambake …

Food Books That Make You Think

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Food history is a relatively new scholarly discipline, going back only about thirty years.  It evolved from two seemingly disparate human endeavors, cooking and recording general history.  The late food historian Karen Hess observed in 1981: “Few scholars are cooks—and fewer cooks scholars. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that no other aspect of human endeavor has been so neglected …

BBQ Ice Cream Cake

Barbecued Desserts

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Article and Photos by Rick Browne, Ph.B. Recipes: BBQ American Apple Pie Chocolate-Orange Shells Barbecued Ice Cream Grilled Avocado with Strawberry-Mango Salsa White Chocolate and Orange Soufflé Grilled Banana Splits Cream Cheese, Chocolate and Jam Turnovers Please read that title carefully. Note that it is not “Barbecue Desserts”—those are desserts you can serve at a barbecue. It’s “Barbecue-d Desserts”—that is, …