Bob Garner's Book of Barbecue: North Carolina's Favorite Food

Garner preserves the heritage and tradition of a disappearing rural lifestyle while showing how barbecue continues to evolve. Packed full of recipes for barbecue and popular side dishes, sidebars with useful tips, barbecue-related news, and features, and profiles of past and present influential pit masters and barbecue aficionados. The definitive guide to anything and everything pertaining to North Carolina's favorite food.;Introduction -- A three-hundred-year tradition -- A North Carolina barbecue primer -- Outside the restaurant -- Pork shoulder or whole hog: how to prepare your own North Carolina barbecue -- Recipes -- North Carolina barbecue restaurants -- Gone but not forgotten -- Postscript.