New and Old #12

Friday roundup and commentary

Life, Death, and Barbecue Sauce, Eater, Adrian Miller, June 7, 2021

This article is an excerpt from Black Smoke, Miller’s recent book about the African-American origins of barbecue. For those who think America has no real food culture or cuisine, barbecue is very much both. And it’s also a reminder that much of what is uniquely American, culturally, is a…