Foodie Friday: BBQ
May 25, 2018
What North Carolina summer is complete without barbecue? Special Collections holds dozens of Cooperative Extension publications that extoll outdoor barbecuing. A 1955 pamphlet (below) for barbecuing poultry was recently digitized under our current project. Interestingly, it stated that outdoor eating was gaining in popularity during the 1950s, and that "everyone likes it."
This publication clearly expected large numbers to attend barbecues, with menus for up to 500 people. Of the two sauce recipes that it contains--one called "all-purpose," the other "mild"--only the latter includes tabasco or red pepper. Try either the next time you entertain a (large) crowd!
Explore more resources about barbecue in our digitized collections, as well as more Extension publications from our current digitization project, funded through Project Ceres, a collaboration between the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC), and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL). To view Special Collections materials in person, please contact us through our online request form.