The Fight for Authentic Barbecue - The New Yorker

The debate over hardwood, gas and electric heat.

At this point, only fifty or sixty barbecue places in the state have been certified by the campaign as cooking exclusively with wood. That’s more than John and Dan expected to find, but it still accounts for what they estimate is only about ten per cent of the barbecue purveyors in North Carolina. And the trend isn’t moving in their direction.

Sounds like if you want NC barbeque from hardwood smokers, you better get there soon.