Opinion: Barbecue storytelling needs to be more inclusive

Adrian Miller, author of “Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue,” assesses how Black barbecuers have been shut out and excluded from storytelling by food media about the culinary tradition. He challenges all to be more inclusive of Black barbecuers by sharing African American barbecue culture’s past, present and future, “[n]ot as a revival or some sort of fresh breath on the glowing embers of a dying culinary tradition, but to make barbecue storytelling more inclusive. To ignite a serious discussion. To celebrate creativity and resilience in a time of tremendous economic, political, social, and racial challenges,” he writes.