Keeping the Fire Alive

Keeping the Fire Alive

By most accounts, one Black-owned brick-and-mortar whole-hog barbecue restaurant sits atop best-of lists across North Carolina: Grady’s BBQ in tiny Dudley, near Goldsboro in Wayne County. Run by 81-year-old Geral Grady and her family, it’s one of the last of its kind. Grady’s late husband, Steve, learned the craft of whole-hog barbecue from his father. And for nearly 40 years, they perfected it. Geral still shows up at Grady’s BBQ four days a we…