I don’t put enough food links on this site. I should put more, else my credentials as a foodie will be scuppered.
So here is one for you: the New York Times report on the Southern Foodways Alliance Barbeque Convention which tackled such thorny issues as how to make a kosher sauce and the threat to “handcrafted” barbeque from “bastard” meat in barbeque sauce sold by supermarkets.