{
 "built": "2026-09-18",
 "scope": "Barbecue as cooked, sold, eaten and talked about in North Carolina and South Carolina. Neighbouring states appear only as origins or contrasts.",
 "records": {
  "style": 6,
  "sauce": 15,
  "dish": 27,
  "pit": 11,
  "place": 58,
  "person": 25,
  "org": 4,
  "event": 7,
  "term": 15,
  "art": 7,
  "story": 4
 },
 "how_records_are_made": "Hand-written JSON, one per node, each field carrying a provenance tier (cited / harvested / tradition / inference / field). Cited fields name a source in sources.json. Tradition fields are general knowledge of the tradition and are hedged in the text.",
 "places": {
  "curated": 58,
  "harvested_from_osm": 335,
  "osm_fetched_at": "2026-09-16T03:25:25Z",
  "reading_an_absence": "A place missing here is missing from OpenStreetMap on the fetch date or not yet written up. It is not a claim that the place does not exist.",
  "osm_query": "[out:json][timeout:120];area[\"ISO3166-2\"=\"US-NC\"]->.nc;area[\"ISO3166-2\"=\"US-SC\"]->.sc;(nwr[\"cuisine\"~\"barbecue|bbq\",i](area.nc);nwr[\"cuisine\"~\"barbecue|bbq\",i](area.sc););out center tags;"
 },
 "hours": {
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  "open_sunday": 91,
  "closed_sunday": 58,
  "sunday_unknown": 224,
  "reading_an_absence": "A day is 'unknown' unless a source said so. Unknown is never rendered as closed."
 },
 "images": {
  "count": 148,
  "licences_accepted": [
   "CC0",
   "Public domain",
   "CC BY",
   "CC BY-SA",
   "FAL"
  ]
 },
 "tags": {
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  "woman-owned": 16,
  "lgbtq-friendly": 1,
  "wood-cooked": 40,
  "whole-hog": 19,
  "family-run": 41,
  "cash-only": 5,
  "sold-out-closes": 2,
  "buffet": 11,
  "weekends-only": 8,
  "hash": 19,
  "closed": 11
 },
 "tags_note": "A tag names its evidence (the owner's words, a press profile, a public directory or list). Absence of a tag says nothing about a place.",
 "recognitions": 118,
 "recipes": 142,
 "sources": 611,
 "not_yet": [
  "field observations (no record carries the field tier yet)",
  "menu prices with dates on most places",
  "Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee cousins beyond a mention",
  "photographs for most records",
  "oral-history links per person"
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "cited": "Cited — a named source, linked",
  "harvested": "Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence",
  "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged",
  "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
  "field": "Field — someone stood there"
 }
}