Is Charlotte, NC a cultural BBQ center?

We mentioned before that there seemed to be some eyebrows raised when Michelle Obama extolled the virtues of Charlotte as being a BBQ town. Shown below you will also see that the author raises the validity of this point with the judicious use of question marks as "Barbecue? In Charlotte?"

As in most controversies, there is a lot of information that gets put out there, some good, some bad and some that is just made up! However, one of the bonuses here is that there is a book co-authored by a retired North Carolina professor, John Shelton called "Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue." Is it worth a read? We don't know. If there is anyone out there who has read it, has it, whatever, please let us know!

Also: see our earlier article at http://charcolandmore.com

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