FIRST SUNDAY LECTURE
"Smokelore: A History of Barbecue"

Sunday, June 7, 2020
3:00-4:00 p.m.

WEBINAR: Please Register

Presenter: Jim Auchmutey, author of Smokelore: A History of Barbecue.

In Smokelore, Auchmutey tells the story of the most truly American food -- barbecue -- which dates back to the earliest encounters between European explorers and native populations and was literally there at the foundation of the U.S. government. Barbecue figures in almost every epoch of our history. It is America in a mouthful.

Jim Auchmutey has written extensively about food. He has co-authored two cookbooks, including the first devoted solely to barbecue sauces and rubs, The Ultimate Barbecue Sauce Cookbook. He is a founding member of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi and has won awards for his food writing from the James Beard Foundation and the Association of Food Journalists. He was a guest curator for the Atlanta History Center’s Barbecue Nation exhibition, which inspired his latest book, Smokelore.

Sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.