McRae’s Foods is family owned and operated company committed to producing the highest quality of specialty sauces. McRae’s Foods was built on a family secret recipe handed down by my mom, Edna McRae. I had a vision that surpassed having a family secret recipe.

Mama’s BackWoods specialty sauces were created from over 35 years of trial and error perfecting the taste of Mama’s barbecue sauce. People from around the world have experienced the thrill of these sauces and swears that they’ve never “tasted anything quite like it.” My mother states, “and they never will because I always season my food with love.”

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Our Story

Mama’s BackWoods BBQ Sauce is sassy mixed with sizzle. It is the inescapable flavor of silky sun-ripened tomatoes and peppers with a good lick of sweet, southern hospitality, and a few of mama’s secret dash of this and that mixed into the magic.

-Kenya McRae, Owner

I am indeed honored to have this opportunity to share some of my mother’s famous recipes. Being from the south, my mom would always cook to show her hospitality rather than give gifts.

She is known as the neighborhood caterer with a tradition of preparing fine southern cuisine.

Being the only girl, it was a requirement that I assist in the kitchen while my mom prepared some of the most delicious dishes, ever. If you wanted some “good old southern style, country cooking” everyone knew to come by Mama’s house. It was the neighborhoods best, and now people from all around the world come to our house to eat Mama’s cooking.

I shared my mom’s bbq sauce recipe with some of my friends in Virginia and the rest is history.