John Shelton Reed\'s Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke.
In a lively and amusing style, Reed traces the history of southern barbecue from its roots in the sixteenth-century Caribbean, showing how this technique of cooking meat established itself in the coastal South and spread inland from.
Since colonial times southerners have held barbecues to mark homecomings, reunions, and political campaigns; today barbecue signifies celebration as much as ever.
John Shelton Reed\'s Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke