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Carolina BBQ — Keep the Sauce Coming!
(or charred brisket tips) you’ll find in over 100 barbecue restaurants in the city’s metro area.
The North and South Carolina barbecue experience can be very different, but they retain key similarities. Both states are known for pork-centric barbecue, slow-roasting whole hogs and spices. However, in North Carolina, the Eastern region often prepares a barbecue sauce heavy on vinegar and spices. Meanwhile, the rest of the state creates a tomato sauce (or ketchup!) to thicken its vinegar- based sauce. In South Carolina, they add ham and pork shoulder to their barbecue menus. While any South Carolina local might list over half a dozen distinct varieties of sauces, most experts break it into two types: The Midlands region is known for a tangy, sweet mustard sauce, while the rest of the state lends itself to thicker or thinner variations of a tomato- style barbecue sauce.
Memphis BBQ — A Balance of Every Style
If you combine Texas’ black pepper and heavy seasonings, North Carolina’s vinegar sauces, and Kansas City’s sticky-sweet flavors, you’ll arrive at Memphis-style barbecue. Memphis barbecue sauce is often sweet, salty, and acidic with a little kick at the end. Some people falsely assume Memphis ribs are dry; however, most venues serve Memphis ribs wet, with a dry rub on top. Of course, the country has many other types of barbecue styles beyond the major four. In Mississippi, for example, you’ll find plenty of winning pork sandwiches and vinegar sauces. Alabama is well-known for its “white” barbecue sauce, which has a mayo and vinegar base. Lastly, in Kentucky, you wouldn’t want to miss the incredible hickory-smoked mutton unique to the state. If you’re bringing the family together for some barbecue, look up a few regional recipes that might appeal to you. I think you might be surprised at how delicious the results can be! It’s an easy way for you and your family to experience different American traditions — without taking a step beyond your own backyard.
Kansas City BBQ — Sweet ‘n’ Burnt
You’re likely most familiar with Kansas City-style barbecue sauce because it’s the most commonly available barbecue sauce on the market! The popular tomato-molasses barbecue sauce is beloved for both its sweetness and tanginess. It matches perfectly with hickory- smoked sausages, pork, ribs, beef brisket, chicken, and “burnt ends”
NOT JUST A LANGUAGE TOOL The History Behind the Real Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone is one of the world’s most popular and well- known language-learning softwares, but many users have wondered about where its name came from. The original Rosetta Stone was once the most enigmatic Egyptian artifact that confounded scholars for a number of years. When they finally cracked the code, one of the lost secrets of ancient Egypt was revealed. The Rosetta Stone is a slab of granite that has inscriptions of a decree issued in 196 B.C. by Egypt’s ruler at the time, Ptolemy V, and a group of Egyptian clergy members. The decree was written in hieroglyphics, ancient Greek, and Demotic, which was a script used by the common people. Experts estimate the stone’s creation was over 2,000 years ago.
the Rosetta Stone, along with other Egyptian artifacts found by the French.
The British relocated the stone to the British Museum in London, where it was stored in a temporary structure until they could strengthen the floors of the museum to support its incredible weight. Various scientists studied the artifact with no success, and it was ultimately deciphered by French linguist Jean-Francois Champollion. Champollion discovered that hieroglyphics were a combination of phonetic and ideographic signs. Earlier scientists had falsely inferred that hieroglyphics were simply symbolic picture writing and nothing more. For his discovery, Champollion was named the founding father of Egyptology.
The slab was discovered in July 1799 by a group of French army engineers who were operating under Napoleon Bonaparte’s orders near the Egyptian town of Rosetta. The British Army would go on to defeat France in Egypt during the French Revolutionary Wars in 1801. Under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria, the British claimed
If you’re interested in viewing the Rosetta Stone, it is still on display at the British Museum in London where it’s been displayed for 220 years, with the exception of a temporary relocation during World War I. While the Rosetta Stone has called London home for hundreds of years, there have been recent requests to return it to its homeland in Egypt.
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