Abe's barbecue

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Abe's Barbecue is a barbecue restaurant in Clarksdale , Mississippi. Abraham Davis, an immigrant from Lebanon , opened the establishment as a Bungalow Inn in 1924 . Davis, then 24, had already been in the US for 11 years at the time. In 1937 he moved to junction 61/49 and renamed the restaurant Delta Inn . After Abe's death, his two sons Pat and Abe Jr. took over the business and renamed it Abe's in honor of the founder. It is now one of the oldest restaurants in Mississippi and is still run by Abraham's son, Pat Davis.

In the early days of barbecue joints in the 1920s, Abraham Davis is considered one of the legendary joint owners and one of the few examples of an immigrant who was so successful.

The restaurant is considered one of the best barbecue joints, for example, the Lonely Planet includes it in its list of 7 examples of southern cuisine that you should visit on a trip through the southern states. The Lonely Planet particularly praises the tamales . USA Today named the same dish in its 2004 list of the Top 20 Foods in America. The Eater web magazine, in turn, added Abe's to its list of 50 must-see places in 50 states. The road food books about regional food do not have that high opinion of the tamales, but give the restaurant the top grade with the comment legendary - it's worth the journey from anywhere .

According to the owners and former African American employees, Abe's was a place that, even in times of racial segregation in the southern states, served every customer, regardless of skin color.

Legend has it that the former owner Abe could cut meat and cabbage so quickly and thinly that people came just to watch him, you could see through the pieces of meat themselves. The joint is also where Highways 61 and 40 intersect - the blues legend after the place where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil and reported about it in Cross Road Blues . What is guaranteed, however, is that the joint was known enough for a while that ZZ Top had Davis sign autographs during a stay.

Remarks

  1. ↑ David Howard Gelin: BBQ Joints: Stories and Secret Recipes from the Barbeque Belt Gibbs Smith, 2008, ISBN 1423602188 , p. 88
  2. ↑ a b Vince Staten, Greg Johnson: Real Barbecue: The Classic Barbecue Guide to the Best Joints Across the USA - with Recipes, Porklore, and More! Globe Pequot, 2007, ISBN 0762744421 , p. 120
  3. ↑ a b Wayne Dresh: Barbecue, Bible and Abe chase racism from Mississippi rib joint ( Memento of 26 March 2012 at the Internet Archive ) fourth, CNN September 2009
  4. ^ A Sociology of Rib Joints in: Mark Alfino, John S. Caputo, Robin Wynyard: McDonaldization revisited: critical essays on consumer culture ABC-CLIO, 1998, ISBN 0275961044 , p. 78
  5. ^ Sara Benson: Lonely Planet USA , Lonely Planet, 2010, ISBN 1741792355
  6. ↑ Jerry Shriver: The top 20 dishes and their restaurants , December 22, 2004
  7. ↑ Eater: [The Eater Doomsday Map: 50 Meals to Eat in 50 States Before the Apocalypse] , January 14, 2011
  8. ↑ Michael Stern: Abe’s , Roadfood, January 19, 2001

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