Robert F. Moss is a food and drinks writer and culinary historian living in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the Contributing Barbecue Editor for Southern Living and the author of Southern Spirits: Four Hundred Years of Drinking in the American South (2016) and Barbecue: The History of an American Institution (2010), the first full-length history of barbecue in the United States. Along with Hanna Raskin of the Charleston Post & Courier, he hosts The Winnow, a podcast about dining in the South and beyond.