Nine quarter races take place while families and people from the business community chat and eat barbecue.

"People are really looking for private space where they can eat barbecue and eat breakfast in their robe," she said.

It was generous to play such music in a place where people were actually drawing breath, let alone eating barbecue.

So it goes without saying that he eats barbecue.

The following is a sampling of places to eat barbecue selected by Times correspondents and contributors.

The first year, 30,000 people came to eat barbecue at the festival.

The truth is, I don't even eat barbecue.

People north of Alexandria were more likely to eat fried chicken or barbecue.

They ate barbecue and spent hours over nightcaps talking about food, family and politics.

Let them eat barbecue, I say, as long as they don't blunder into a strike.