If you love barbecue (and please remember that in North Carolina and the South, barbeque or barbecue isn’t a verb!), you’ll love this book. Bob Garner is truly “the barbecue man” and writes so passionately about what is just short of a religion in North Carolina. Indeed, Garner has captured the historical perspective of the evolution of roasted pork and its historical role in life, religion, and especially, politics. He further decodes the decades territorial differences between vinegar-based, Eastern-style barbecue and its Western-North Carolina tomato-based variant. Whatever your palate desires, this book is surely required reading for both natives and newcomers alike. Pickup a copy and then go out, build a fire, and roast some great pork. Mmmmmm.
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EXCELLENT !!!! From someone who grew up in the tobacco fields of Wilson County, this book is just a god-send. I moved away after college and do not get a chance to get back as much as I like. Several of the restaurants listed in the book were my favorite places to go ‘get a plate’. As I have not had real ‘cue’ in a while, I decided to Google ‘NC barbecue’ to see if I could find some good recipes. Man, what a find. Great info. contained in the book, in addition to a few great recipes. I consider myself…
Makes me miss Durham 🙁 Though I only lived there two years, I’ve often yearned to go back to Carolina. This book made that yearning into a painful ache! How many cooking books do you read with the intensity of interest as a thrilling novel? I did this one. Warning: This is not a recipe book. Yes, of course it has recipes, from both eastern Carolina and western Carolina barbecue traditions, as well as some variations of both. But the stories and history of this book make it a treasure in my collection…