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The oldest continuously operating restaurant in Alabama is the Golden Rule Bar-B-Q, founded in 1891. [3] In 2015, the Alabama Department of Tourism launched "The Year of Alabama Barbecue", a campaign to promote Alabama's barbecue restaurants. [4]
The first Golden Rule Bar-B-Q restaurant was founded in Irondale, Alabama by the Williams family in 1891. Located on a major dirt road, the restaurant originally catered to travelers. [ 1 ] The original wood building had dirt floors, but it was later moved to a new location with a wood floored dining room. [ 2 ]
While barbecue is found outside of this region, the 14 core barbecue states contain 70 of the top 100 barbecue restaurants, and most top barbecue restaurants outside the region have their roots there. [4] Barbecue in its current form came from the South, where cooks learned to slow-roast tough cuts of meat over fire pits to make them tender.
Dreamland Bar-B-Que is a barbecue restaurant chain based in Alabama. It was founded by "Big Daddy" John Bishop in the Jerusalem Heights neighborhood of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 1958, but has since franchised, opening Alabama restaurants in Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Mobile, and Northport.
The original Arawak term barabicu was used to refer to a wooden framework. Among the framework's uses was the suspension of meat over a flame. The English word barbecue and its cognates in other languages come from the Spanish word barbacoa, which has its origin in an indigenous American word. [3]
These are the best July 4th trivia facts that you may have not known. Get in the patriotic spirit by learning more about Independence Day!
A file photo of Sue Cobb from Cobb's BBQ researched by Twin Blends: Northwest Louisiana History Hunters. Sue Williams Cobb's Obituary Sue Cobb passed away peacefully on April 4, 2024, at home ...
Case history; Prior: 233 F. Supp. 815 (N.D. Ala. 1964): Holding; Section 201(a), (b), and (c) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [1] which forbids discrimination by restaurants offering to serve interstate travelers or serving food that has moved in interstate commerce is a constitutional exercise of the commerce power of Congress.