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Eat Helen's Bar BQ, Brownsville, Tennessee

Barbecue—slow-cooking with smoke, a tradition brought north from the West Indies by Spanish conquistadores—evolved in the USA as a plantation-feast food for enslaved Africans, who often were offered pigs at the end of the harvest season. This tradition spawned four different varieties: Carolina, Texas, Memphis, and Kansas City. Helen Turner, one of the South’s few female pit-masters, has been serving up ribs and other meaty delights at her unassuming, freestanding BBQ joint in Brownsville, Tennessee, since 1996. Order the sandwich with a side of slaw. You’ll see.
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