PICNIC 1647 Cole Mill Road, Durham Read more:A Man of Smoked Meat: Barbecue Authority John Shelton Reed Talks Exporting a Southern Tradition On top of each table at Picnic, Durham’s new craft barbecue joint, a bottle of sauceor “dip,” if your allegiances lean toward Lexingtonclaims to offer the perfect compromise between North Carolina’s two vernacular […]
Lee Quinn
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A Man of Smoked Meat: Barbecue Authority John Shelton Reed Talks Exporting a Southern Tradition
My first encounter with John Shelton Reed came during my final semester in college, when I was his student during his final semester teaching at UNC-Chapel Hill. His course on the sociology of the South challenged students to see it as a region that, while by no means homogenous, has an identity as distinctive as […]

