Web Based Barbecue Offers a Distinctive Taste of Antebellum Southern History With Zero Carbs

For those who seek unique, authentic southern foods and flavors, Gardners Barbecue is a gold mine of unusual cooking ideas.

Rocky Mount, VA (PRWEB) January 12, 2004 --Throughout much of the United States, barbecue" means a thing you happen to cook on outside or anything that you might happen to cook outside. But, in the Southeast, you will quickly discover that barbecue" means a very specific thing. When Southerners talk about barbecue they mean pork cooked over wood coals. In the Southeast from Virginia down and around to Louisiana, the ideal fuel for great barbecue is hickory. This has been both the regional preference and practice since the early colonial settlers first dug a pit and roasted a pig over those flavorful embers.

One enterprising Virginian has combined historical culinary research with techniques of slow-smoking to recreate hickory roasted pork the likes of which would have been very familiar to Washington, George Mason or Patrick Henry. J. W. Gardner recently launched GardnersBarbecue.com and is selling these modern recreations on the web. Unlike most barbecue available for purchase online, this web site offers whole pork roasts with names like The James River," The Tidewater," and The Smokehouse Tenderloin." Consumers working to loose weight on the Atkins Diet will appreciate the fact that most of these pork roasts are low in carbohydrates and many are carb-free.

More than simply reminiscent of the Old South, these hickory-smoked history lesions are authentic eighteenth and nineteenth century cuisine combining curing, smoking and seasoning methods seldom found today. There is a sugar-smoked pork loin for example suggestive of Colonial era sweet-pork" and a stuffed loin filled with an oyster sage sausage and tied with bacon recreated form the Tidewater and Low-Country plantation kitchens of South Carolina and Virginia.

For those who seek unique foods and flavors, Gardners Barbecue is a gold mine of unusual cooking ideas. In addition to the varied and distinctive pork roast offerings; this site also features authentic Southern recipes for history-minded cooks including everything from beaten biscuits and sweet potato pie to the history and origins of Brunswick Stew.

Gardners Barbecue ships to 48 States.
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