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Ladataan... Republic of Barbecue: Stories Beyond the BrisketTekijä: Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. A thought-provoking anthology that has more hits than misses. The editors' potluck (their term) combines interviews with barbecue producers with essays that attempt to take broader views of society, history and culture; as a lifelong Yankee I'm not familiar with central Texas and this book did provide a more complete (and complicated) picture of the barbecue scene than the myths provide. Unfortunately the historical-sociological essays sometimes repeat stories or claims that were found a few pages earlier, as if the editors thought no one would read the book straight through or wouldn't remember quotes from one page to the next. (It's also a shame that one of the personal essays is more about the author's outsider angst than anything else.) The detours into barbecue-related film references, song titles, etc. are silly but entertaining. All one needs is a plate of brisket to go with the book! ( ) I got this book thinking it would be amusing. Instead I find the author has collected hundreds of outstanding stories of a simple way of life in which the vast majority of the barbecue place owners have followed. The stories are full of determination to produce high quality food, with side dishes from scratch while keeping prices low so the average town resident can eat there anytime. The work ethic involves a lot of working with the hands, starting at 4AM every day and in some areas such as Austin, staying open until very late at night. In the accompanying photos which are mostly of the people making the bbq and readying the pits, cutting wood, building the pits and so on, you can readily see the simple rural life. There are no smartphones, no high-tech food processors. There is a lot of attention to preparing the side dishes, potato salad and beans from scratch, just like the meat. This is not a book of recipes, but a travel through rural Texas and its way of life and the work ethic of its people. It belongs with Texas culture books, not with food books. On rural Texas culture and that work ethic, it is one of the best I have read. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Winner, Barbara Sudler Award, Colorado Historical Society, 2010 It's no overstatement to say that the state of Texas is a republic of barbecue. Whether it's brisket, sausage, ribs, or chicken, barbecue feeds friends while they catch up, soothes tensions at political events, fuels community festivals, sustains workers of all classes, celebrates brides and grooms, and even supports churches. Recognizing just how central barbecue is to Texas's cultural life, Elizabeth Engelhardt and a team of eleven graduate students from the University of Texas at Austin set out to discover and describe what barbecue has meant to Texans ever since they first smoked a beef brisket. Republic of Barbecue presents a fascinating, multifaceted portrait of the world of barbecue in Central Texas. The authors look at everything from legendary barbecue joints in places such as Taylor and Lockhart to feedlots, ultra-modern sausage factories, and sustainable forests growing hardwoods for barbecue pits. They talk to pit masters and proprietors, who share the secrets of barbecue in their own words. Like side dishes to the first-person stories, short essays by the authors explore a myriad of barbecue's themes--food history, manliness and meat, technology, nostalgia, civil rights, small-town Texas identity, barbecue's connection to music, favorite drinks such as Big Red, Dr. Pepper, Shiner Bock, and Lone Star beer--to mention only a few. An ode to Texas barbecue in films, a celebration of sports and barbecue, and a pie chart of the desserts that accompany brisket all find homes in the sidebars of the book, while photographic portraits of people and places bring readers face-to-face with the culture of barbecue. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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