Billy Ball is an award-winning journalist from North Carolina and senior editor at Cardinal & Pine, an online news site. He has bylines in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, MSNBC, and others.
For the written version of this story, click here. Since he opened City Limits BBQ in West Columbia, S.C., in 2016, Robbie Robinson has become one of just two barbecue pitmasters to make the semifinals twice for best chef in the James Beard Awards, which, for chefs, is like
South Carolina
In West Columbia, South Carolina, about four miles from where the Saluda and Broad rivers become the Congaree, at the bottom of a cracked and uneven driveway, in a plain white building flying South Carolina's blue-and-white palmetto flag, lies one of the best restaurants in America.
Alabama
Hear my conversation with Rodney Smith Jr., an Alabama man who's toured the U.S. 19 times mowing lawns for vulnerable people.
Alabama
Rodney Smith Jr., an immigrant from Bermuda, was searching for himself. He found it by helping an elderly Alabama man who was struggling to mow his lawn. This is Rodney's story.
This is "The Living South," where journalist Billy Ball interviews game-changing Southerners. In this recording, I explain why I'm doing this.
"Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.” – “Absalom, Absalom” Welcome to The Living South. I am a native Southerner and a journalist. I started this page because I wanted to