Worry stone — Amulet Atlas A smooth polished gemstone, usually an oval with a thumb-sized dish worn into one face, about 3 centimetres across. It is held between index finger and thumb, and the thumb is moved back and forth across the dish. nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/amulet/worry-stone/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 32K
Lemon pepper wings — Wing Country A wing cooked without breading and finished in lemon pepper — granulated lemon zest mashed with cracked black pepper, then baked and dried, usually with salt and sugar in the blend. Atlanta orders it two ways. nanobotco.github.io/buffalo-wings/style/atlanta-lemon-pepper/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
The ex-voto wall — Amulet Atlas Small painted panels hung in ranks inside a church, each showing one bad moment — a cart going over, a fever bed, a boat under a wave — with the saint who intervened floating in the top corner and a line of handwriting… nanobotco.github.io/amulet-atlas/art/ex-voto-wall/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 30K
Alabama white sauce — Wing Country A mayonnaise-based barbecue sauce, thin, pale and sharp. Typical ingredients are vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and horseradish stirred into mayonnaise. nanobotco.github.io/buffalo-wings/sauce/alabama-white-sauce/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 35K
Nashville hot wings — Wing Country Hot chicken's method put on a wing: marinate in a water- or buttermilk-based seasoned blend, flour, fry, then paint with a cayenne paste loosened with fat drawn from the fryer. nanobotco.github.io/buffalo-wings/style/nashville-hot/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 37K
direct heat — Carolina Barbecue The Carolina way of putting fire to meat: a bed of hardwood coals directly beneath the hog or the shoulders, with no flame and no separate firebox. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/pit/direct-heat/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 36K
Adam Scott — Carolina Barbecue The Rev. Adam Scott (1890–1983) was a Black cook and Holiness minister in Goldsboro who by his company's date went into the barbecue business in 1917, cooking whole hogs in his back yard and selling chopped pork with a… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/person/adam-scott/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 34K
Lemon pepper wet — Wing Country A wing that has been through something wet and then through lemon pepper. nanobotco.github.io/buffalo-wings/sauce/lemon-pepper-wet/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 33K