Barbecue Stand Near Ft. Benning, Georgia, 1940

Georgia: Home of U.S. BBQ?

Dave DeWitt State-By-State Barbecue History Leave a Comment

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 …