Happy National Barbecue Month! We're here with a guest blog post from Adrian Miller, author of Ferris and Ferris book Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue. In this post, Adrian gives us some insight into the life of a black woman pitmaster from nineteenth-century Arkansas named Marie Jean. Don't miss Adrian's next virtual event this Sunday, National Barbecue Day (fire up that pit!). He'll be discussing his book Black Smoke with Tattered Cover, the largest black-owned bookstore in the country. You can RSVP for the event here, you won't want to...