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Barbecue

A woman in a black top and a man in a red jacket smile in front of a Chinese bar with ornate patterning and a green wall

tastemaker

Corrie and Shuai Wang serve up Chinese ’cue with Holy City flair at their latest North Charleston restaurant, King BBQ

A cheeseburger on a tray, a container of fries, and a cup with the restaurant's logo on it.

Recipe

The acclaimed pitmaster proved he’s savvy with a skillet at Hugh-Baby’s BBQ & Burger Shop, and he’s got some meaty advice

Food & Drink

The Southern pitmasters share a few rules of thumb

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Southern Soul Barbeque fires up a game-day spread, sharing recipes for wings slathered in Cheerwine sauce, a standout smoked fish dip, and a zingy Bulldog smash

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In Greenville, North Carolina, locals know the rules for reaching whole hog glory

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Southern ribs get northern Indian treatment in this robust dish from Charleston’s Coterie

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Take a peek inside pit master John Lewis’s Texas border food restaurant, opening in South Carolina this weekend

Swig-and-swine-boiled-peanut-salad

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How to work your favorite road trip staple onto the dinner table

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Good wood, well-designed tongs, and a rig you can rely on might be all that stands between you and pit mastery

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At Valentina’s Tex Mex, the Vidal family are putting their own spin on barbecue—one smoked brisket taco at a time

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John T. Edge takes the temperature of twenty-first-century ’cue

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Meet a new generation of pit masters who are doing right by barbecue tradition—and blazing new trails

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In recent months, three iconic joints have shuttered. Should we be worried?

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Get an exclusive peek inside Bow & Arrow, a new restaurant blending ’Bama and Texas barbecue traditions from chef-on-the-rise David Bancroft

Our Kind of Place

A Southern Maryland native revisits a barbecue shack that serves up a slab of memories

Food & Drink

“This is not smoked chicken from a pit master. This is back-yard, sticky-fingers, delicious barbecue chicken”

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Armed with a notebook, a hairnet, an appetite, and plenty of Dr Pepper, a novice backyard warrior enters the hallowed halls of meat science for an intensive lesson in fire, wood, smoke, and plain old great Texas ’cue

The Southern Agenda

NC Barbecue Revival organizer Wyatt Dickson shares three standout Eastern North Carolina barbecue joints

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Pit master Rodney Scott heads to Charleston

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Before you fire up the grill, here are five things you need to know