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  "name": "Scott's Famous Barbecue",
  "aliases": [
   "Scott's Barbecue",
   "Scott's Cafe",
   "Adam Scott's",
   "Scott's Sauce Company"
  ],
  "sort": "Scotts Famous Barbecue"
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  "state": "NC",
  "status": "closed",
  "founded": "1917",
  "fuel": "unknown",
  "styles": [
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  ]
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  "what": "The Goldsboro barbecue of the Rev. Adam Scott, a Black cook and preacher who catered barbecues from the 1910s, sold from the back door of his house on Brazil Street from the early 1930s, and whose son A. Martel Scott patented the family's vinegar sauce as Scott's Famous Barbecue Sauce in 1946. The company dates the sauce to 1917 and sells about a million bottles a year. The restaurants — three around Goldsboro by 1950 — are closed: after a first closure in 2001 the family ran on Thursday and Friday lunches for a while, then stopped to make sauce.",
  "story": "Adam Scott was born in 1890 and took his first cooking job in 1911 at the Elberon Hotel in Atlantic City; back in Goldsboro he catered barbecues from about the mid-1910s, and between 1931 and 1933 opened a back-door restaurant at his home on Brazil Street — two hogs a week on Saturdays at first, later four to seven a day, with an enclosed porch for a dining room. His first customers were mostly white. In 1933 he cooked barbecue for Franklin Roosevelt in the White House Rose Garden. He said the final recipe for the sauce came to him in a vision. In the 1940s he moved to Winston-Salem to cook for R.J. Reynolds, and his son Alvin Martel Scott, born 1913, patented Scott's Famous Barbecue Sauce in 1946 and put it in stores. By 1950 there were three Scott's around Goldsboro — Martel's on the Mount Olive highway, Ed Scott's on the Wilson highway, Adam's on the Raleigh road — and the Green Book, the travel guide for Black motorists, listed a Scott's at 404 Gulley Street from 1950 to 1955. Martel ran the business until his death in 1992; his wife Ann chaired the company until hers in 2009. Adam Scott died in 1983 at 93. The restaurant closed in 2001, reopened on Thursday and Friday lunches when customers kept calling, then closed for good; the Scotts' children and grandchildren make the sauce. The National Barbecue Hall of Fame inducted Adam Scott in 2022.",
  "how": "Hogs cooked at the house, two a week and then several a day, chopped and dressed with the vinegar sauce; the later restaurants served chopped pork with hushpuppies and fried chicken. What survives is the sauce: vinegar, salt and spices, no tomato, fat-free and sugar-free, sold in grocery stores across the east and by the case online.",
  "today": "Closed. The Scott family's sauce company continues in Goldsboro; the restaurant's last address is not confirmed on this disk, so the map point marks the town."
 },
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   "tell": "That Scott's is in Hemingway, South Carolina, opened as a store and gas station by Roosevelt and Ella Scott in 1972 and known for whole hog; this one is Adam Scott's in Goldsboro, a generation older, and closed. No relation is recorded."
  },
  {
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   "tell": "Rodney Scott is the Hemingway family's pitmaster, with restaurants since 2017 starting in Charleston; the Goldsboro Scotts bottle a sauce and no longer cook."
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  "lon": -77.9927651,
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  "county": "Wayne",
  "state": "NC"
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   "label": "Scott's Cafe — The Green Book in North Carolina (NC African American Heritage Commission)",
   "url": "https://aahc.nc.gov/green-book/scotts-cafe"
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   "label": "Scott's Barbecue Sauce — official",
   "url": "https://scottsbarbecuesauce.com/"
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   "label": "David Cecelski on the Rev. Adam Scott (2025)",
   "url": "https://davidcecelski.com/2025/11/21/the-artist-of-barbecue-the-rev-adam-scott-and-a-family-journey-from-slavery-to-the-white-house/"
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   "alt": "A News Bureau photo sheet: two prints mounted on a printed North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development form, filled in by hand — subject, Barbeque Pit; locality, Goldsboro, Adam Scotts Place; date, Aug-44. In the left print a man in a white shirt and apron stands at a table with two tall enamel stockpots and an open pan of chopped meat, a short-handled tool in his raised hand and printed notices tacked to the board wall behind him. The right print looks down the inside of a long brick pit: a bed of pale ash between low brick walls, iron bars laid across it, the far end lost in smoke.",
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