Eating brisket or ribs once a day at every place covered in “The Arkansas Barbecue Traveler” would keep a carnivore happily fed until Feb. 24, 2026, as of Tuesday.
That’s because Kat Robinson’s recently published 318-page guidebook visits a flabbergasting 399 purveyors of beef, pork, chicken and other barbecue fare. The author of a dozen previous books about eating in Arkansas, she drove more than 15,000 miles to all 75 counties while sampling the food at all those eateries.
Robinson discovered “something astonishing. Arkansas is in a barbecue boom. Whether it’s the explosion of food-truck culture, a rush of a whole generation into retirement jobs, or a fervor to fulfill the hunger of a burgeoning barbecue-loving populace, this state has seen a sudden and overwhelming rush of entrepreneurs diving into barbecue sales.”
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