– Robert Moss follows the mustard line from SC down through Georgia and into Florida
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– Daniel Vaughn explores the greaseballs of Southwest Texas at Patillo’s Bar-B-Q
-Johnny Fugitt profiles Smokee Mo’s BBQ for St. Louis Magazine
– Marie, Let’s Eat! revisits the 50 year old Hickory Hut BBQ in Dallas, GA
– NPR’s The Salt food blog profiles Sam Jones’ new barbecue joint, Sam Jones BBQ
To understand the significance of Sam Jones BBQ, you have to understand the place in the barbecue firmament. And you have to start with barbecue’s place in the Tar Heel state. Aficionados regard North Carolina not only as a capital of barbecue, but a cradle of the cuisine. It is as central as basketball to the state’s identity.
But so many barbecue joints have replaced wood with gas that some folks feared the impending death of all-wood pit cooking. The North Carolina Barbecue Society estimated a few years ago that only 30 wood-pit barbecue restaurants were left in the state. To diehards, the demise of traditional wood-smoked barbecue in North Carolina would be tantamount to a death in the family. Maybe worse.