Smoke & Soul Chicago isn’t usually at the top of the list of legendary barbecue locales (you know, the type of places where people will fight you with a cleaver over something as insignificant as sauce). After all, this isn’t Kansas City or Memphis. However, this is a city that layers sausage onto deep-dish pizza…

Asheville lives up to the reputation that North Carolina has for producing some of the greatest barbecue in the South and down-home soul cuisine. There are two different styles of barbecue in the area: Lexington and Eastern. Both use pig as its main ingredient, but their serving sauces and hog chops vary. Asheville is a…

Delicious BBQ is one of the many things Alabama is renowned for. Restaurants around the state exhibit the well-known southern hospitality. Famous sweets include banana pudding and lane cake. Alabama is where the lane cake, which consists of bourbon-soaked layers and coconut-pecan frosting, was originally created. If you are visiting Alabama, there are many tasty…