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ORAL HISTORY
Pat Davis Sr.
Abe's Bar-B-Q
Abe’s Bar-B-Q has been in business in the same location since 1937. Pat Davis, Sr. remembers Mexican vendors peddling hot tamales in downtown Clarksdale when he was a kid. At the same time, Pat was helping his father, Lebanese-born Abraham “Abe” Davis, make his own pork-filled tamales by hand in the kitchen of the family’s restaurant. Eventually, Pat talked his father into buying an extruder to make their tamale chores a little easier. Today, their tamales are contract manufactured according to Abe’s original recipe. Recently, the Davis family introduced the “Tamaco,” a green salad with tamales on top. It’s a whole new twist on the generations-old tradition of hot tamales.
