From left: Will Foster, Jr., of Atlanta, Jeff Vaughan of West Palm Beach, Fla., Matt Lee, of Cullman, Ala., and Art Richey, of Russellville, Ala., sample the sauce at Dreamland Bar-B-Que in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Thursday Jan. 22, 2009. The four friends from Birmingham-Southern College have spent January visiting some of the South’s finest barbecue restaurants for course credit in an unusual writing class that combines eating barbeque with academics, all spread across five states. (AP Photo/Jamie Martin)