Jeanne Voltz's BBQ

In honor of our class topic of BBQ, I wanted to mention my favorite BBQ book by an often forgotten cookbook author, Jeanne Voltz: BBQ Ribs, Smoked Butts and Great Feeds.

This book was one of the first to establish barbeque as a cuisine worth valuing. Her take on barbeque was likely because as a food journalist, she was not burdened by the food hierarchy of culinary cuisine. She simply saw an untold story. Voltz once said, “The South has the kind of climate that grows certain things the way no other place in the country does. I’ve worked in Los Angeles and New York, but you can’t ever get away from grits and greens.”