Robert F. Moss is a food and beverage writer living in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the senior restaurant reviewer and food writer for the Charleston City Paper, and his work has also appeared in publications such as Garden & Gun, the Los Angeles Times, the Charlotte Observer, and Early American Life. Robert is the author of Barbecue: The History of an American Institution (2010), the first full-length history of barbecue in the United States, and Going Lardcore: Adventures in New Southern Dining (2012), a collection of essays about dining in the modern South. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Robert received his B.A. from Furman University and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of South Carolina.

“Barbecue Lover’s The Carolinas” is a book to pack in your suitcase rather than keep on the kitchen bookshelf. ... . they represent the full sweep of Carolina barbecue traditions and that they are among the very best that the two states have to offer.” I am sure I gained weight while making my way through the book. I love the calendar of barbecue festivals. My husband and I now stand ready to give the true proof to this book — take Moss’s implied challenge and hit the road to try some of these places for ourselves.