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BBQ Chicken Pizza photo coming soon
1985-present
BBQ chicken pizza became a national restaurant-chain signature after chef Ed LaDou developed it for California Pizza Kitchen in the 1980s. It is pure late-20th-century American fusion: Italian American pizza form, California creativity, smoky-sweet barbecue sauce, and a weeknight-friendly topping lineup.
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Sheet Pan Fajitas photo coming soon
2010-2026
Sheet Pan Fajitas assemble seasoned meat and vegetables spread on a single sheet pan and roasted together for a fast, flavorful meal. They reflect contemporary American fusion cuisines and the popularity of convenient weeknight cooking solutions.
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Chicken Liver Spread photo coming soon
1861-1900
Chicken Liver Spread is a smooth pate made from sauteed chicken livers, onions, and seasonings, often served as a hearty appetizer or sandwich topping within Jewish-American communities. Rooted in mid-19th century culinary traditions during and after the Civil War, this dish reflects immigrant adaptation and resourcefulness.
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Chinese Chicken Salad photo coming soon
1900-1929
Chinese Chicken Salad is an early Chinese-American creation blending crisp greens, shredded chicken, and crunchy elements with a tangy dressing influenced by Asian flavors. Gaining popularity in immigrant-rich urban diners and lunch counters during the early 20th century, particularly from 1900 to 1929, this salad represents the adaptation of Chinese ingredients to American salad formats, often served at city diners and state fairs as a fresh, portable dish.
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Chicken Caesar Salad photo coming soon
1990-2009
A well-known salad featuring grilled chicken atop crisp romaine, tossed with creamy Caesar dressing, crunchy croutons, and Parmesan cheese. Popularized in family restaurants and coffee shops during the 1990s and 2000s, it became a staple side and light entree, especially for Super Bowl gatherings, blending Italian-American flavors with accessible American dining.
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Chicken Caesar Wraps photo coming soon
1970-1989
Chicken Caesar Wraps combine grilled chicken, crisp romaine, Caesar dressing, and Parmesan cheese wrapped in a soft flour tortilla. Emerging during the 1970s and 1980s in mall food courts and fast-food outlets, these wraps offered a portable, fusion-style meal favored at tailgates and casual events, blending convenience with classic American-Italian flavors.
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General Tso's Chicken photo coming soon
1900-1929
General Tso's chicken is a Chinese-American dish featuring battered and fried chicken pieces coated in a sweet, tangy, and slightly spicy sauce. Popularized in American diners and state fairs in the early 20th century, it has become a staple of Americanized Chinese cuisine, often characterized by its bold flavor and crispy texture.
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Matzo Ball Soup photo coming soon
1861-1900
A traditional Jewish-American soup featuring flavorful chicken broth and light matzo ball dumplings. This dish became an integral part of Jewish communities in the United States from the late 19th century onward.
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Orange Chicken photo coming soon
1900-1929
Orange Chicken is a popular Chinese-American fried chicken dish coated in a sweet, tangy orange-flavored sauce. Emerging from Chinese immigrant restaurant cuisines in early 20th century America, it has become a ubiquitous menu item blending American tastes with Chinese culinary techniques.
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Sesame Chicken photo coming soon
1900-1929
Sesame Chicken is a popular Chinese-American dish known for its crispy battered chicken pieces coated in a sweet, sticky sesame sauce. It rose to prominence in American Chinese restaurants and diners during the early 20th century and became a common feature at state fairs.
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Avgolemono Soup photo coming soon
1900-1929
A silky Greek-American chicken, rice, egg, and lemon soup made by tempering eggs into hot broth for a creamy dairy-free finish.
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Barbecued Chicken photo coming soon
1946-present
A backyard barbecued chicken recipe with bone-in chicken pieces cooked over indirect heat and brushed with vinegar-tomato barbecue sauce.
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Booyah photo coming soon
1850s-present
Booyah is more than soup in Green Bay and northeast Wisconsin. It is a community event food tied to Belgian American settlements, church picnics, fundraisers, and enormous kettles stirred for hours.
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Brunswick Stew photo coming soon
1800s-present
Brunswick stew has competing origin claims in Virginia and Georgia, and older roots in Southeastern stews that combined meat and corn. Modern versions are often linked to barbecue restaurants, church fundraisers, hunting camps, and community kettles.
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Butter Chicken photo coming soon
1970s-present
Butter chicken, or murgh makhani, is associated with Moti Mahal and Punjabi cooks who turned tandoori chicken into a rich tomato-butter gravy. In the United States, Indian restaurants, immigrant cooks, supermarket sauces, and suburban takeout made it one of the best-known Indian dishes for American diners.
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California Cobb Salad photo coming soon
1930s-present
The Cobb salad is closely tied to the Brown Derby restaurant in Hollywood and Bob Cobb in the 1930s. Its rows of chopped ingredients made it a California restaurant icon: hearty enough for a meal, bright with avocado and tomato, and theatrical enough for Hollywood.
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Chicken and Dumplings photo coming soon
1800s-present
Tender chicken in rich broth with soft dumplings, finished as a thick, comforting Southern and Appalachian main dish.
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Chicken and Rice Casserole photo coming soon
1940s-present
A comforting chicken and rice casserole made with uncooked rice, chicken pieces, condensed cream soup, broth, and a simple baked finish.
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Alabama White Sauce Chicken photo coming soon
1920s-present
Grilled or smoked chicken served with Alabama white barbecue sauce, a mayonnaise-and-vinegar sauce associated with Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur.
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Arepa Sandwiches photo coming soon
2010-2026
A street-food arepa sandwich filled with avocado chicken salad, black beans, cheese, and bright lime, built for the American food-truck table while respecting its Venezuelan and Colombian roots.
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Bourbon Chicken photo coming soon
1980s-present
Bourbon chicken is modern American fusion food: bite-size chicken in a sticky sweet-savory sauce, associated with Bourbon Street in New Orleans and later with mall food courts and American-Chinese steam tables. Some versions include bourbon whiskey; others keep the name and skip the liquor.
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Buffalo Chicken Dip photo coming soon
1990s-present
Buffalo chicken dip turns Buffalo wing flavors into a scoopable party dish. It belongs to the Super Bowl and tailgate era of American entertaining, with Frank's RedHot, cream cheese, shredded chicken, and ranch or blue cheese becoming the familiar formula.
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Buffalo Chicken Pizza photo coming soon
1980s-present
Buffalo chicken pizza merges two American party foods: Buffalo wings and pizza. Once wings became a national bar-food favorite, pizza shops and home cooks started using buttery hot sauce instead of tomato sauce and topping pies with chicken and cooling cheese or ranch.
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Burgoo photo coming soon
1800s-present
Burgoo is Kentucky gathering food, cooked in big kettles for barbecues, political events, church fundraisers, Derby parties, and camps. Its origins are murky, with links to frontier stews, ragout, and communal cooking, but its identity is unmistakably Kentucky.
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Cajun Chicken Pasta photo coming soon
1990s-present
Cajun chicken pasta is American fusion in family-restaurant form. It borrows the spice profile and blackening language popularized by Cajun restaurant cooking, then folds it into creamy pasta for a 1990s-style chain and mall-restaurant favorite.
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Chamorro Barbecue photo coming soon
1900s-present
A Guam fiesta-table barbecue of chicken, ribs, or beef marinated in a tangy soy-vinegar mixture and grilled over hot coals.
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Chicken a la King photo coming soon
1890s-present
Tender chicken and mushrooms in a rich cream sauce with pimentos and sherry, served over toast, pastry shells, rice, or biscuits.
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Chicken and Dumplings, Early Style photo coming soon
1770s-1800s
A historic-style chicken broth with simple flour dumplings, inspired by early American meat-dumpling and pottage traditions.
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Chicken and Noodles photo coming soon
1900s-present
Tender chicken and egg noodles simmered in rich broth until thick, hearty, and ready for a Midwestern supper.
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Chicken and Slicks photo coming soon
1800s-present
Chicken simmered in broth with thin rolled dumpling strips, also called slicks, sliders, or chicken pastry in parts of the South.
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Chicken Cacciatore photo coming soon
1900s-present
Bone-in chicken browned and simmered with tomatoes, wine, peppers, mushrooms, onions, garlic, and herbs in the Italian American style.
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Chicken Long Rice photo coming soon
Cross-era
Chicken Long Rice is a comforting Hawaiian side featuring clear mung bean noodles simmered in chicken broth with shredded chicken, garlic, and ginger. This dish evolved through Hawaiian local and immigrant communities, reflecting influences from Asian and Portuguese-American cuisines and becoming a staple at family gatherings.
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Chicken Noodle Soup photo coming soon
Cross-era
Chicken Noodle Soup is a comforting one-pot dish made by simmering chicken, vegetables, broth, and egg noodles into a nourishing soup. A staple across American kitchens for generations, it highlights simplicity, warmth, and adaptability in soups and stews throughout the country's culinary evolution.
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Chicken Nuggets photo coming soon
Cross-era
Chicken Nuggets are bite-sized pieces of breaded and fried chicken, widely served in school cafeterias and concessions throughout America. Known for their kid-friendly appeal and convenience, they have become a quintessential fast food and school meal option, evolving into various formulations over time to suit mass production and taste preferences.
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Chicken Pie photo coming soon
1861-1900
Chicken Pie is a hearty savory pie made with cooked chicken, vegetables, and a flaky pastry crust. Rooted in mid to late 19th-century railroad and boardinghouse cooking, it offered a portable, filling meal for workers and travelers during the Civil War and Reconstruction period, blending practicality with comforting flavors.
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Chicken Pot Pie photo coming soon
1800-1860
Chicken Pot Pie is a savory dish of chicken and vegetables enveloped in a flaky pastry crust. Emerging in New England and the Mid-Atlantic between 1800 and 1860, it provided a filling meal emphasizing local ingredients and baking traditions, symbolizing comfort food during early American settlement and immigration periods.
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Chicken Salad Sandwich photo coming soon
1900-1929
Chicken Salad Sandwich features poached chicken combined with mayonnaise and seasonings, served between slices of bread. A staple in diners and lunch counters from 1900 to 1929, it exemplified quick, hearty meals for working-class Americans in immigrant-rich urban centers and became a common offering at state fairs and casual eateries.
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Chicken Spaghetti photo coming soon
1946-1969
Chicken Spaghetti is a creamy, comforting casserole that became popular in the Midwest during America's postwar prosperity era. Combining cooked chicken, spaghetti noodles, a cheesy sauce, and often vegetables like bell peppers or mushrooms, this dish embodies the freezer-ready casseroles prized in suburban households. With its melding of convenience and homestyle flavor, it reflects the era's suburban family cooking trends.
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Chicken Tenders photo coming soon
1990-2009
Chicken Tenders are breaded strips of chicken breast meat, fried until golden and crispy, that became staple party and game day food across American households during the 1990s and 2000s. Their easy preparation, finger-food appeal, and compatibility with dipping sauces made them widespread in casual dining, cafes, and sports events, reflecting changing trends in American appetites and convenience foods.
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Chicken Tikka Masala photo coming soon
1990-2009
Chicken Tikka Masala is a creamy tomato-based curry with marinated, grilled chicken pieces, dining into American culinary landscapes in the late 20th century through immigrant and suburban adaptations. The dish blends South Asian flavors with local ingredient availability, symbolizing the globalizing food culture in suburban America and becoming a beloved main course in many households across the United States.
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Fried Chicken photo coming soon
1800-1860
Fried chicken is a Southern classic featuring chicken pieces seasoned, battered, and deep fried to a crispy golden crust. This dish has been beloved across the South since the early 19th century and remains a cornerstone of American comfort food.
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Grilled Chicken Salad photo coming soon
1990-2009
Grilled Chicken Salad became popular in American suburbs and coffee shops during the 1990s-2000s as a health-oriented dish. Featuring marinated grilled chicken over mixed greens with fresh vegetables and vinaigrette, it is common at Super Bowl gatherings and casual dining venues.
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Chicken Bog photo coming soon
1920s-present
A Pee Dee and Horry County chicken-and-rice dish with smoked sausage, moist rice, and enough broth to stay boggy.
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Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings photo coming soon
1970-1989
Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings combines tender, slow-cooked chicken in a savory broth with soft dumplings cooked atop or within the crockpot. This adapts traditional Southern comfort food to a hands-off cooking method, popular in home kitchens from the 1970s onward.
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Crockpot Chicken Tacos photo coming soon
1970-1989
Crockpot Chicken Tacos offer a flavorful and simple way to prepare shredded chicken with Mexican-inspired seasonings in a slow cooker. The tender meat can be used for tacos, burritos, or other dishes, reflecting Mexican-American fusion and modern convenience cooking from the late 20th century.
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Fried Chicken Sandwich photo coming soon
Cross-era
The fried chicken sandwich features a crisp fried chicken filet sandwiched between soft bread with pickles and condiments. A popular cross-era American sandwich offering, it blends Southern fried chicken tradition with fast casual sandwich culture.
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Hawaiian Huli Huli Chicken photo coming soon
Cross-era
Huli Huli chicken is a Hawaiian grilled chicken marinated in a sweet-savory teriyaki-style sauce, cooked on a spit or grill. It captures Hawaii's barbecue culture blending native and immigrant flavors and is a festive dish for outdoor gatherings.
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Marry Me Chicken photo coming soon
2010-2026
Marry Me Chicken is a creamy skillet chicken recipe combining garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, and fresh herbs in a rich sauce. Gaining fame through viral internet sharing since the 2010s, it epitomizes contemporary American home cooking trends that embrace approachable, flavorful, and visually appealing dishes suitable for casual weeknight meals or special occasions.
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Meal Prep Burrito Bowls photo coming soon
2010-2026
A versatile and nutritious burrito bowl designed for meal prep and quick eating. This recipe incorporates fresh and cooked ingredients tailored for air fryer, Instant Pot, or basic stovetop use, reflecting contemporary quick-cuisine trends.
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Nashville Hot Chicken photo coming soon
2010-2026
Nashville Hot Chicken is a spicy fried chicken specialty from the American South known for its crispy, deep-fried exterior coated in a cayenne pepper-based paste. Gaining widespread fame through food trucks and viral internet food culture in the 2010s and beyond, it embodies the bold flavors of modern Southern cooking.
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Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich photo coming soon
2010-2026
The Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich is a street food variant that sandwiches the spicy fried chicken between bread with pickles and condiments. Emerging in the 2010s alongside food truck culture, it combines classic Southern heat with handheld convenience.
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North Dakota Knoephla Soup photo coming soon
2010-2026
Knoephla Soup is a comforting creamy dumpling soup tied to German-Russian immigrant heritage in North Dakota and the Upper Midwest. Featuring small dough dumplings simmered in a savory broth with potatoes and often chicken, this regional icon offers rich fusion flavors representative of immigrant adaptation and local ingredients.
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Peruvian Chicken photo coming soon
1990-2009
Peruvian chicken features a moist chicken roast marinated in a blend of garlic, peppers, and spices, then roasted with a crispy skin. Gaining popularity in U.S. suburbs and food scenes during the 1990s to 2000s, it represents a fusion of global cuisines adapted for American tastes.
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Teriyaki Chicken photo coming soon
1946-1969
Teriyaki Chicken is marinated grilled chicken coated with a sweet and savory glaze, popularized during postwar suburban backyard grilling culture on the West Coast. This flavorful main dish represents the fusion of Asian marinades with American grilling traditions, perfect for outdoor meals with family and friends.
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Thai Curry photo coming soon
1990-2009
Thai Curry is a richly spiced stew or sauce dish that entered American kitchens during the growth of global suburban and fusion cuisine in the 1990s and 2000s. This recipe adapts traditional Southeast Asian curry pastes and coconut milk into accessible forms, reflecting immigrant influences and adventurous American palates blending global flavors into everyday cooking.
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Ranch Powder Seasoning photo coming soon
Cross-era
Ranch Powder Seasoning is a spread with real American table personality: The dry-mix form of ranch: popcorn, crackers, pretzels, chicken, potatoes, and dips. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Hot Honey photo coming soon
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Hot Honey is a condiment with real American table personality: Modern American pizza, fried chicken, and biscuit condiment. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Country Gravy / White Gravy photo coming soon
Cross-era
Country Gravy / White Gravy is a condiment with real American table personality: Chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, biscuits. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Cream Gravy photo coming soon
Cross-era
Cream Gravy is a condiment with real American table personality: Fried chicken and chicken-fried steak. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Chicken Gravy photo coming soon
Cross-era
Chicken Gravy is a condiment with real American table personality: Cafeteria, Sunday supper, chicken and biscuits. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Chicken Salad Dressing photo coming soon
Cross-era
Chicken Salad Dressing is a spread with real American table personality: Mayo-based deli and lunch counter culture. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Nashville Hot Chicken Paste/Oil photo coming soon
Cross-era
Nashville Hot Chicken Paste/Oil is a condiment with real American table personality: Fiery cayenne-lard/oil seasoning tied to Prince's Hot Chicken in Nashville. It brings flavor from the American South to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Buttermilk Dressing photo coming soon
Frontier & Expansion
Buttermilk Dressing is a dressing with real American table personality: Southern and farmhouse cousin of ranch. It brings flavor from the American South to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Italian-American Dressing photo coming soon
Cross-era
Italian-American Dressing is a dressing with real American table personality: Bottled oregano-garlic-vinegar dressing used on salads, subs, pasta salad, and grilled chicken. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Honey Mustard Dressing photo coming soon
Cross-era
Honey Mustard Dressing is a dressing with real American table personality: American restaurant salad and chicken tender sauce staple. It brings flavor from coast-to-coast American tables to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.
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Alabama White Sauce photo coming soon
Cross-era
Alabama White Sauce is a barbecue sauce with real American table personality: Mayonnaise-based sauce strongly associated with Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q and northern Alabama chicken barbecue. It brings flavor from the American South to cookouts, counters, lunch plates, potlucks, and weeknight suppers.