mustard-based barbecue sauce — Carolina Barbecue Prepared yellow mustard thinned with vinegar and sweetened with sugar or brown sugar, with black and red pepper and whatever else the house keeps to itself — Bessinger's bottled version listed mustard, brown sugar, soy… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/sauce/mustard-sauce/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 54K
Adrian Miller — Carolina Barbecue A Denver writer and lawyer, the 'Soul Food Scholar' of his own site, whose Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue (UNC Press, 2021) is the history of the Black cooks, pitmasters and restaurant… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/person/adrian-miller/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 33K
pitmaster — Carolina Barbecue The person who runs the pit — the fire, the coals, the turning of the hog, the call that it is done. A recent word for an old job. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/word/pitmaster/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 32K
Rien Fertel — Carolina Barbecue A New Orleans writer and historian — a Tulane doctorate in history, 2013 — who recorded the Southern Foodways Alliance's barbecue oral histories in North Carolina in 2011 and South Carolina in 2012, then spent five… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/person/rien-fertel/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 39K
pickles — Carolina Barbecue Cucumbers held in brine or vinegar until they sour, sliced into rounds or spears and put on the plate beside the meat, with the sandwich, or loose in a dish on the table. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/pickles/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 41K
Cheerwine — Carolina Barbecue A cherry-flavoured soft drink — burgundy-red, sweet, with a strong black-cherry note and more carbonation than most sodas — made in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina by the Carolina Beverage Corporation since… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/cheerwine/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 40K
Backyard BBQ Pit — Carolina Barbecue A Black-owned barbecue restaurant on N.C. 55, the Apex Highway, in southeast Durham, opened in April 2007 by Fabianne and Melvin Simmons, who bought a struggling restaurant and made it a neighborhood institution… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/place/backyard-bbq-pit/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
Bessinger's Bar-B-Q — Carolina Barbecue A Bessinger family barbecue house at 1602 Savannah Highway in Charleston's West Ashley. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/place/bessingers-bar-b-q/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 40K
white slaw — Carolina Barbecue Finely chopped cabbage in a dressing of mayonnaise or whipped salad dressing, sweet and pale: the slaw of eastern North Carolina and of most of South Carolina. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/white-slaw/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 44K