Drive A Hundred Miles And

Southern Barbecue Is The Closest Thing We Have In The Us To Europe’s Wines Or Cheeses; Drive A Hundred Miles And The Barbecue Changes.

If You Care To Define The South As A Poor, Rural Region With Lousy Race Relations, That South Survives Only In Geographical Shreds And Patches And Most Southerners Don't Live There Any More.

I've Occasionally Wished I Had Caller Id. Even Telemarketers, I Hate To Hang Up On Them. I Try To Explain I'm Not Interested, But They Have All These Canned Responses So I End Up Having To Hang Up On Them Anyway.

But I Still Do Believe That There Are Useful Things To Say About Elvis Presley, Including What His Own Ordinariness As A Poor Southerner Says About 20th-century Hero-making.

Barbecue Is The Third Rail Of North Carolina Politics.