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Kansas City, Missouri, is home to the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs — who open their season Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens. Outside Arrowhead Stadium, Chiefs fans are sure to be serving barbecue at the tailgates. But not just any barbecue. Specifically, Kansas City barbecue. “For Kansas City, ‘barbecue’ is a noun.It’s not a verb,” Rod Gray, …

The smell of wood fire wafting on the breeze is the first sense that gets triggered at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, where smoke is as essential an ingredient as salt. For the teams that annually compete at the so-called Super Bowl of Swine, they’ve elevated backyard barbecue to fine dining under the sun, incorporating techniques passed …