The inaugural issue of Smoke & Salt, a guide to seriously good barbecue and oysters, features Virginia Living s Best BBQ and Best Oyster Awards a carefully curated roundup of hundreds of the state s best barbecue joints and food trucks, oyster producers and retailers, oyster bars and more selected by our editors and a panel of industry experts. Smoke & Salt also includes profiles of pitmasters and oyster growers, a guide to Virginia s oyster trail, shucking tips from the pros, a guide to tools for roasting and smoking, a list of barbecue- and oyster-centric festivals around the state, recipes for your next oyster roast or barbecue and more. Plus, feature stories about the history of barbecue (the Old Dominion is the true home of Southern cue), and on the oyster front, the organizations and industry leaders whose work to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay over the last 30-plus years has helped to bring the Eastern oyster back from near extinction.