North Carolina Piedmont Slaw

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In the 1920s, Miss Dell Yarborough was moving successful the Lexington, N.C., edifice owned by her brother-in-law, Sid Weaver, erstwhile she introduced the barbecue-eating satellite to an antithetic vinegar slaw based connected what her household ate astatine home. Most of the barbecue-eating satellite wasn’t interested, but Miss Dell's "barbecue slaw" caught connected successful the North Carolina Piedmont, wherever it remains the broadside crockery of prime to this day. (Stamey's successful Greensboro inactive serves the archetypal recipe.)

In astir of the South, coleslaw serves arsenic a cooling opposition to the vigor of barbecue sauce, but Piedmont slaw is, successful effect, made with barbecue sauce. This is simply a emblematic example, based connected the 1 served astatine Lexington Barbecue.

The slaw needs to remainder successful the refrigerator for 3 to 4 hours and preferably overnight.

Adapted from the forthcoming "Barbecue: A Cookbook," by John Shelton Reed (UNC Press, 2014).

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

• Calories

  40

• Carbohydrates

  10 g

• Sodium

  210 mg

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  8 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from the forthcoming "Barbecue: A Cookbook," by John Shelton Reed (UNC Press, 2014).

Tested by Andrew Sikkenga.