Alabama NewsCenter — The ultimate guide to Southern barbecue sauce, including two Alabama classics

By: Eric Velasco

For many Alabamians, no summer celebration is complete without smoke-kissed ribs, pork shoulder, chicken or beef brisket.

Traditionally, each region in Alabama and other Southern states had its own special approach to barbecue. It wasn’t so much the type or cut of meat or the wood used to cook it, although they play roles. The sauce set them apart.

From the Atlantic coast through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, sauces for the local ’cue vary in their degrees of heat and sweet, the relative influences of tomato and mustard, and the amount and type of vinegar they contain. North Alabama’s most famous contribution is tangy and creamy white sauce.

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