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‘The Strange and Fascinating History of Barbecue Sauce’

February 10, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

HiLowBro:

That was the notion, anyway: regional differences, secret recipes, timeless feuds, hard headed barbecue extremists, assassinations, plots to overthrow the government — who knew what strange fascinations you’d find when you looked into the history of barbecue sauce? Except the very diversity that, on the surface, made barbecue sauce seem such fertile ground for investigation, eventually renders the notion meaningless.

There is no barbecue sauce…

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