Article: Alabama white sauce boosts zing, cuts fat

JILL WENDHOLT SILVA, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
09-06-2006

Alabama white sauce boosts zing, cuts fat -- Condiment complements barbecue
By JILL WENDHOLT SILVA, MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Date: 09-06-2006, Wednesday
Section: FOOD
Edtion: All Editions

In the Midwest, barbecue sauce is red.

But in northern Alabama, white sauce rules.

Barbecue lore offers this nugget: In 1925, a 6-foot-4-inch, 300-pound railroad worker-turned-pitmaster named Big Bob Gibson from Decatur, Ala., began using a rather thin vinegar-mayonnaise sauce flecked with black pepper to marinate his chicken.

Today his offspring carries on the white-sauce tradition at Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q restaurants. According to ...

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