Barbecue Sauce Eastern North Carolina Style

East Carolina Barbecued pork and greens, barbecue sauce recipe below

According to Mt Vernon, New York’s Reginald T. Ward, Barbecue in Bertie, County, North Carolina means “chopped barbecue.” Ward, who I interviewed for my book Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14638-8/hog-and-hominy/excerpt migrated to New York from Robbinsonville in Bertie County in the 1960s. In North Carolina Ward grew up barbecuing a whole pig chopped up with different spices “like vinegar and red pepper.” The word barbecue varies from region to region even across a state. Historically the folks in Bertie County, in eastern North Carolina, used a vinegar based sauce. Here is an Eastern North Carolina barbecue sauce recipe you can try this Memorial Day weekend.

Eastern North Carolina barbecue sauce recipe: http://www.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/291/NorthCarolinaEasternStyleS64780.shtml