The low an slow method of BBQ started as a way for slaves and lower classes to cook off cuts.

The slave owners would get the prime pieces of meat and give the ribs to slaves who had to come up with a way to cook it.

It is interesting that a method for cooking the inexpensive pieces of meat morphed into gourmet food.

Apparently the same thing happened with lobsters and squid (calamari).

I order ribs at restaurants. I haven't bothered making them myself because the cooking takes too long.

!WINE