Jim Auchmutey - “Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America”
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jun 25, 2019 7 p.m.
Location
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
441 Freedom Pkwy
Details
Lecture/Booksigning
Carter Presidential Library & Museum Theater
Free and Open to the Public
The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia, the rejiggering of gender roles. Jim Auchmutey follows the delicious and contentious history of barbecue in America from the ox roast that celebrated the groundbreaking for the U.S. Capitol building to the first barbecue launched into space almost two hundred years later.
