“Bluff City”—Memphis, Tennessee—stands on bluffs above the Mississippi River where, safe from flooding, it was an important commercial center before the Civil War and, after a hiatus, again in the lat

On the shores of the Mississippi River, in the city which hosts the World’s Largest Cooking event (so sayeth Guinness Book) they practice a different sort of sauce preparation. They take the molasses

The origins of competition barbecue in the United States are as futilely sought and almost as frequently debated as the site of the “first” barbecue. Like barbecue itself, barbecue competitions are a