North Carolina Barbecue Society
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North Carolina Barbecue Society is a non-profit organization created to promote North Carolina culture and food. They are based in Winston-Salem
, North Carolina
, United States
One of the goals of the organization is to promote barbecue related cultural events such as the Tar Heel Barbecue Classic and the Lexington Barbecue Festival, as well as promote the barbecue culture of North Carolina.
There are two native barbecue types in North Carolina, Eastern Style and Lexington Style, and great deal of controversy always surrounds any attempt to create an "official" barbecue type.. They both use slow cooking over hardwood coals (usually hickory
) but differ in methods. Two bills that would have introduced Lexington Style as the defacto barbecue type of the state met controversy and failure in the State House of Representatives and State Senate in 2006, North Carolina House Bill 21 and North Carolina Senate Bill 47
Eastern style uses all of the meat from the pig (whole hog), or as it is more informally explained, it uses, every part of the hog except the squeal".. The sauce can be as simple as vinegar and pepper.
Lexington Style uses a vinegar and ketchup type sauce, and uses only the pork shoulder, which is darker meat, thus more moist. It is also served with red slaw, a type of coleslaw that uses this barbecue sauce (locally called "dip") instead of mayonnaise.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
, North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
, United States
United States
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One of the goals of the organization is to promote barbecue related cultural events such as the Tar Heel Barbecue Classic and the Lexington Barbecue Festival, as well as promote the barbecue culture of North Carolina.
Mission
According the official website, The mission of the North Carolina Barbecue Society (NCBS) is to preserve North Carolina’s barbecue history and culture and to secure North Carolina’s rightful place as the Barbecue Capital of the World. A less formal and more commonly heard motto is "to cook and eat barbecue as often as possible, preferably in the company of good friends and to promote the Old North State as the “Cradle of ’Cue.”History
The organization was founded in 2006 As of 2008, the President of the organization is founder Jim Early, attorney and author of The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: Manteo to Murphy. which is a review of all the restaurants on the "Historic Barbecue Trail", which links 25 barbecue establishments in 21 locales across the state.Barbecue types and politics
There are two native barbecue types in North Carolina, Eastern Style and Lexington Style, and great deal of controversy always surrounds any attempt to create an "official" barbecue type.. They both use slow cooking over hardwood coals (usually hickory
Hickory
Trees in the genus Carya are commonly known as hickory, derived from the Powhatan language of Virginia. The genus includes 17–19 species of deciduous trees with pinnately compound leaves and big nuts...
) but differ in methods. Two bills that would have introduced Lexington Style as the defacto barbecue type of the state met controversy and failure in the State House of Representatives and State Senate in 2006, North Carolina House Bill 21 and North Carolina Senate Bill 47
Eastern style uses all of the meat from the pig (whole hog), or as it is more informally explained, it uses, every part of the hog except the squeal".. The sauce can be as simple as vinegar and pepper.
Lexington Style uses a vinegar and ketchup type sauce, and uses only the pork shoulder, which is darker meat, thus more moist. It is also served with red slaw, a type of coleslaw that uses this barbecue sauce (locally called "dip") instead of mayonnaise.