Barbecue Quote by Bobby Seale

Barbecue is always good in the south, especially in South Carolina.

— A'ja Wilson

There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.

— Pat Conroy

In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle, extreme hunger,…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

— John Shelton Reed

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.

— Clement Freud

“The travels to discovery my heritage revealed to me that the South might not be a place so much as it is a series…

— Michael W. Twitty

“[I]t is remarkable how much sheer bullshit seems to accrete around the subject of barbecue. No other kind of cooking comes even close. Exactly…

— Michael Pollan

My family barbecued a lot; good barbecue is more complicated than you think.

— Manish Dayal

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all…

— Charles Burnett

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin