Barbecuing Chicken

Although pork is by far the most popular choice of meat for barbecue, chicken, shown here being cooked slowly whole over a pit of coals, is served at many barbecue restaurants and stands.

Patrick Cantrell tending a pit full of chickens at Big Bob Gibson Barbecue in Decatur, Alabama
Courtesy of the Birmingham News. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Photograph by Bernard Troncale.
Patrick Cantrell tending a pit full of chickens at Big Bob Gibson Barbecue in Decatur, Alabama