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
Texas Pete — Carolina Barbecue A cayenne-pepper hot sauce made by the T.W. Garner Food Company of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, since 1929 — mild as hot sauces go, 747 on the Scoville scale — in a flip-top bottle with a red cowboy on a… nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/sauce/texas-pete/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 36K
roadside barbecue signs — Carolina Barbecue The sign a barbecue place puts at the road: a steel pylon with a lit box on top, neon or bulbs picking out a name, a bottler's disc above it, and a changeable letterboard underneath for the day's news. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/art/roadside-barbecue-signs/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 46K
cornbread — Carolina Barbecue A quick bread of cornmeal — meal, water or buttermilk, salt, fat, often egg and soda — baked in a pan, a skillet or a stick mould. It comes with eastern North Carolina barbecue in two forms. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/cornbread/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 51K
Sam Jones — Carolina Barbecue Samuel 'Sam' Jones is the grandson of Pete Jones and a third-generation pitmaster of the Skylight Inn in Ayden, where he sold chopped pork as a child. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/person/sam-jones/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 31K
mac and cheese — Carolina Barbecue Macaroni in a cheese sauce, most often cheddar, baked in a dish until the top browns. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/mac-and-cheese/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 43K
sweet tea — Carolina Barbecue Black tea brewed strong, sweetened with sugar while hot — so it dissolves, rather than being stirred into a cold glass — and poured over ice. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/sweet-tea/ · 15-Sep-2026 · 43K
baked beans — Carolina Barbecue White beans — navy or pea beans — cooked slow in a sweet brown sauce of molasses or brown sugar with pork in it, and served hot in a cup or a compartment of the tray. nanobotco.github.io/carolina-barbecue/dish/baked-beans/ · 16-Sep-2026 · 39K