Smokin' With Myron Mixon

MYRON MIXON was quite literarily born to barbecue. Raised in Vienna, Georgia,his father Jack owned a BBQ restaurant which Myron helped run. His parentsstarted selling Jack's Old South BBQ Sauce, and after his father died in 1996,Myron thought that by entering competitions he could sell some sauce. He washooked. He has appeared on the Today show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,and the Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson. KELLY ALEXANDER is a formereditor at Food & Wine and Saveur magazine, and her work has appeared in theNew York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, and Newsweek,amongst others. She also teaches food writing at Duke, and is a graduate ofNorthwestern's Medill School of Journalism.