Trace the slave-era roots of BBQ with Michael W. Twitty
Food writer and culinary historian Michael W. Twitty serves up a crash course on the history of barbecue.
Hip new barbecue joints are popping up all over North America, featuring everything from Sriracha-slathered ribs to smoked duck tacos. But Michael W. Twitty worries that the trendy take on barbecue ignores the very people who invented it in the first place.
The food writer and culinary historian joins Shad to shed light on the complex history of the barbecue, the traditions he learned from his father, and how BBQ lovers can indulge while also respecting history.
WEB EXTRA | Read the article that Twitty wrote for The Guardian, Barbecue is an American tradition – of enslaved Africans and Native Americans, which argues that "enslaved Africans have largely been erased from the modern story of American barbecue".
