Alabama White Sauce Smoked Chicken appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Alabama white sauce smoked chicken · Birmingham
Alabama white sauce smoked chicken is hickory-smoked chicken finished with a mayonnaise, vinegar and black-pepper sauce, the regional barbecue signature.
Big Bob Gibson invented white sauce in Decatur Alabama in 1925 to keep whole smoked chickens moist during long pit cooks. The mayonnaise, vinegar and black pepper combination became the signature of North Alabama barbecue and spread south to Birmingham in 2009 when Saw's BBQ opened in Homewood. The style remains distinct from Memphis tomato-based and Eastern North Carolina vinegar-based barbecue; Big Bob Gibson holds the canonical white-sauce origin and Saw's runs the Birmingham metro version.
Where to eat in Birmingham:
- Saw's BBQ
- Saw's Soul Kitchen
- Demetri's BBQ