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BBQ History:
A Guide to Selected Resources

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Barbecue stand near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.
Barbecue stand near Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress.

SELECTED TITLES

Cornbread nation 2: the United States of barbecue. Edited by Lolis Eric Elie. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, c2004. 283 p.
   Includes bibliographies.
   TX840.B3 C67 2004
   Published in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi.

Garner, Bob. North Carolina barbecue: flavored by time. Winston-Salem, John F. Blair, 1996. 160 p.
   TX840.B3 G365 1996

Raichlen, Steven. Steven Raichlen’s BBQ USA: 425 fiery recipes from all across America. New York, Workman Pub., c2003. 774 p.
   Bibliography: p. 746-748.
   TX840.B3 R3552 2003

Walsh, Robb. Legends of Texas barbecue cookbook: recipes and recollections from the pit bosses. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, c2002. 269 p.
   Bibliography: p. 260.
   TX840.B3 W36 2002

Worgul, Doug. The grand barbecue: a celebration of the history, places, personalities and techniques of Kansas City barbecue. Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Star Books, c2001. 127 p.
   TX840.B3 W67 2001

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REPRESENTATIVE JOURNAL ARTICLES

Gerstäcker, Friedrich. An Arkansas barbecue, 1843. Early American life, v. 15, Aug. 1984: 30-31.
   E162.E214 and Food History Pamphlet Box <SciRR>

Lovegren, Sylvia. Barbecue. American heritage, v. 54, June 1, 2003: 36-44.
   E171.A43 and Food History Pamphlet Box <SciRR>

Prehistoric barbecue. Discover, v. 10, March 1989: 14-15.

Walsh, Robb. Summer and smoke. Natural history, v. 105, Aug. 1996: 68-71.
   QH1.N13 and Food History Pamphlet Box <SciRR>

York, Jake Adam. The marrow of the bone of contention: a barbecue journal. storySouth, winter 2003.
   Online at: http://www.storysouth.com/winter2003/bbqframe.html

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SELECTED INTERNET RESOURCES

American Barbecue Society
   http://www.americanbbqsociety.org

Backyard Barbecue
   An interview from the Southern Oral History Program at UNC, Chapel Hill.
   http://www.sohp.org/research/lfac/N&O/6.5b29-ER_Mitchell.html

Barbecue Origins: A Brief History of North Carolina Barbecue
   http://www.ibiblio.org/lineback/bbq/origins.htm

BBQ Oral History Project, from the Southern Foodways Alliance
   http://www.southernfoodways.com/oral_history/tnbbq/index.shtml

Charcoal
   From Sustainable Table. Includes the invention of briquettes by Henry Ford.
   http://www.sustainabletable.org/features/summergrilling/charcoal.html

History of Barbecue in the South
   In Laura Dove’s BBQ: A Southern Cultural Icon.
   http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CLASS/MA95/dove/history.html

Kansas City Barbecue
   A short history of Kansas City barbecue, with a glossary.
   http://www.experiencekc.com/barbeque.html


Compiled by Alison P. Kelly, June, 2005

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