On Barbecue

John Shelton Reed is one of today’s most knowledgeable authors on the subject of barbecue.  Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue , written with his wife, Dale Volberg Reed, won the National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence in 2017 and was a finalist for the 2009 International Associate of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award. In this collection,  On Barbecue , Reed compiles reviews, essays, magazine articles, op-eds, and book extracts from his many-year obsessio