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A brisket bento box at Kemuri Tatsu-Ya reconsiders barbecue’s most iconic cut of meat.
food

In Texas, Barbecue Has Gone Global

Across Texas, chefs and BBQ obsessives are stretching the limits of brisket, smoke, and sauce.
A gazebo overlooking the largest spring in northwest Arkansas.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Blue Springs Heritage Center

The largest spring in Northwest Arkansas is also home to a sprawling botanical gardens and a historically significant bluff.
The pond at the back of Anne Spencer's garden. The small bust on the edge of the pond was a gift from W.E.B. Du Bois.
Lynchburg, Virginia

Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.
Many of the musicians on the circuit, such as Tina Turner, right, became superstars later in their careers.
music

Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers

It's where legends like Tina Turner and Ray Charles launched their careers.
Adrian Miller June 28, 2022
The filling is smooth and sweet, but with something deeper and more complex.
fruit

Resurrecting Virginia's Forgotten 'Caramel' Pie

Beloved by Edna Lewis, this plum-based favorite deserves a resurgence.
Claiborne Milde June 2, 2022
A bowl of chitlins.
Gastro Obscura

Chitlins

These entrails identified safe venues for Black musicians during the Jim Crow era.
Rodney Scott mopping sauce onto whole hogs at Scott's Bar-B-Que in South Carolina.
food

Inside the Decades-Long Effort to Build a Barbecue Trail

The Southern Foodways Alliance is documenting the oral histories of pitmasters.
Diana Hubbell January 21, 2022
haunted

Podcast: The Gray Man

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange stories.
The Podcast Team March 29, 2021
Sacred Harp Singing directional sign for the Lookout Mountain Sacred Harp Convention at Pine Grove Church, Collinsville, Alabama.
music

‘Sacred Harp’ Singing Treats Every Human Voice as Holy

In the rural American South, these non-denominational sing-alongs are part of a long musical tradition.
Shannon Dell June 3, 2020
Downtown Paris.
Paris, Kentucky

Bourbon County Horse Walk of Fame

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."
The Antioch Baptist Church, donated to the Whitney Plantation.
Edgard, Louisiana

Whitney Plantation

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
The Anchorage in Beaufort
Beaufort, South Carolina

Haint Blue Porch Ceilings

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.
Gastro Obscura

Hoppin' John

This New Year's luck-bringer has a controversial contemporary taste.
The daguerreotype within its original leather frame.
slavery

Found: The Oldest-Known Photograph of Enslaved African Americans With Cotton

The daguerreotype records their faces, but not their names.
Sabrina Imbler December 4, 2019
First Lady Grace Coolidge in 1926 with what was meant to be dinner.
food

Why President Coolidge Never Ate His Thanksgiving Raccoon

A tradition as American as apple pie, and older than the Constitution.
Luke Fater November 26, 2019
The roots of a tulip poplar, a common hardwood tree with medicinal properties.
medicine

How Civil War Plant Remedies Could Improve Modern Medicine

An old medical botanical guide offers new avenues for research.
Evan Nicole Brown May 23, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Buffalo Ribs

In Arkansas, this order will land you a plate of fried fish.
Portrait of Omar ibn Said, also known as Uncle Moreau.
manuscripts

The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Enslaved Muslim Man Is Now Online

The Library of Congress has digitized the works of Omar ibn Said in both Arabic and English.
Jonathan Carey January 25, 2019