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Article: Alabama white sauce boosts zing, cuts fat
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- September 6, 2006
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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 ...