![]() One thing that was interesting to me is whether these regional styles that we fight about so much really hold up to scrutiny.ĪB: In the first chapter, you make the case that we can trace barbecue back to Indigenous cooking techniques. And then, in terms of first-person reporting, I just wanted to go to places and see how barbecue customs have developed, and talk to people and see how they think of barbecue. How did you approach the subject and your reporting process for the book?Īdrian Miller: In terms of the archival stuff, I was just trying to get as much evidence as I could about barbecue’s early days, and there’s just not a lot of it. Your chapters, which cover sauce, competition barbecue, and more, are punctuated with profiles of figures from Black barbecue history, like Arthur Watts and Marie Jean, an enslaved woman who eventually bought her freedom. ![]() This conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Īllison Braden: Black Smoke weaves together archival history and first-person reporting. ![]()
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