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  "what": "An institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, founded in 1999 and directed since then by John T. Edge, that documents the food of the South: oral histories, films, writing, awards and events, funded by about 800 members. For the Carolinas its work is the Southern BBQ Trail, an oral-history project begun in February 2011 across nine states, whose North Carolina set includes the Skylight Inn, Parker's, Grady's, B's, Bum's, Stamey's, Short Sugar's, Red Bridges, Cook's, Clyde Cooper's, the Barbecue Center and Ed Mitchell, and whose South Carolina set holds eight interviews: Sweatman's, Scott's, Midway, Jackie Hite's, Dukes, Cooper's Country Store, Brown's and Melvin's. Each interview is a transcript with audio, free online.",
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  "how": "Interviews are recorded by SFA oral historians, transcribed and posted with audio, a portrait and a short biography, under the project and the state; the site filters by state and by tag. Membership funds the work; the awards and events run alongside it.",
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   "from": "short-sugars",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Short Sugar's Pit Bar-B-Q",
   "as": "recorded the Wilsons in 2011.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "stameys-barbecue",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Stamey's Barbecue",
   "as": "recorded Chip Stamey in 2011.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "sweatmans-bar-b-que",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Sweatman's Bar-B-Que",
   "as": "recorded its cook Douglas Oliver in June 2012.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "adrian-miller",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Adrian Miller",
   "as": "he sat on its board from 2004 to 2010 and received its Ruth Fertel Keeper of the Flame award in 2018.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "bob-garner",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Bob Garner",
   "as": "he has spoken at its annual symposium in Oxford, Mississippi.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "bum-dennis",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Bum Dennis",
   "as": "recorded him and Larry together at the restaurant on December 5, 2011.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "ed-mitchell",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Ed Mitchell",
   "as": "recorded him in Wilson on September 5, 2007, and made him the subject of a Gravy episode.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "john-shelton-reed",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "John Shelton Reed",
   "as": "wrote the introduction to its North Carolina barbecue oral-history project, posted April 25, 2011.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "rien-fertel",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Rien Fertel",
   "as": "recorded its North Carolina barbecue interviews in November and December 2011 and its South Carolina set in June 2012, before writing The One True Barbecue.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "rodney-scott",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Rodney Scott",
   "as": "recorded him at Hemingway on June 21, 2012, for its South Carolina project.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "sam-jones",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Sam Jones",
   "as": "recorded his oral history at the Skylight Inn on November 29, 2011, before he had a restaurant of his own.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "warner-stamey",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Warner Stamey",
   "as": "recorded his grandson Chip at the Greensboro restaurant on November 18, 2011.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "pitmaster",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "pitmaster",
   "as": "whose oral histories record pitmasters in their own words.",
   "rel": "kin"
  },
  {
   "from": "free-to-use",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Where all of this came from",
   "as": "the archive most of the first-person material on this site comes from.",
   "rel": "org"
  }
 ]
}