Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Barbecue in Colonial America
2. “Republican Plenty”: Fourth of July and Campaign Barbecues
3. The Barbecue Comes of Age
4. Barbecue and the Civil War
5. Barbecue, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow
6. The Rise of Barbecue Restaurants
7. Barbecue Finds the Backyard
8. The First Golden Age of Barbecue
9. The Decline of American Barbecue
10. The Rebirth of American Barbecue
Afterword
Notes
References
Index