– Skylight Inn and Heirloom Market Bar-B-Que make the list

13 people, 12 states, hundreds of meals: Eater’s definitive list of the 38 essential restaurants in the South https://t.co/s6bFzdMant pic.twitter.com/6qHRNP955g

— Eater (@Eater) March 23, 2017

– Marie, Let’s Eat! goes deep on the old Coleman’s BBQ chain, which used to have 176 stores across the southeast but is now down to just 2 in Mississippi

– From Robert Moss, a history of how the beef rib became an Instagram star

Gigantic. Instagram-friendly. The “foie gras of beef.” Here’s how Texas beef ribs became BBQ’s newest star. https://t.co/W0Ac9kXmeI pic.twitter.com/eZbW86g6bX

— First We Feast (@firstwefeast) March 23, 2017

– The Charlotte Pitmasters, at least for July 15

.@Knightsbaseball will make all your barbecue dreams come true when they become the Pitmasters: https://t.co/mPdFpWOI8q pic.twitter.com/x0k05yybRB

— Cut4 (@Cut4) March 17, 2017

– Cheerwine’s Centennial Celebration in Salisbury on May 20 will have a “People’s Choice BBQ Competition”

– Speaking of which, here’s the story of how Cheerwine came to be 100 years ago from Our State Magazine as well as Eater

A sugar shortage during World War I led the inventor of Cheerwine to experiment with cherry flavoring. https://t.co/AIOUyyj8me

— Our State Magazine (@ourstatemag) March 23, 2017