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Leon Finney Sr.
Leon Finney Sr. (1916–2008) was a barbecue restaurateur from Chicago known for founding Leon's Bar-B-Q and contributing to the development of Chicago-style barbecue. Biography Leon Finney, who was born in Mississippi in 1916. His father was T. J. Huddleston Sr., a prominent funeral home owner. His son, Leon Finney Jr. was born in 1938. He moved to Chicago in 1940 to escape the racist environment of the South. He moved in with his aunt Bertha Brody who worked at a barbecue restaurant on Garfield Avenue that ran an illegal gambling business out of its basement. After police raided the bar, they offered Brody the option of buying the restaurant for $700, the cost of its refrigerator. Brody agreed, and Finney called Huddleston who gave him the money to purchase the restaurant. The restaurant was closed in 1947, after President James A. Garfield's price controls on meat made it unprofitable. For the next ten years, Finney worked various service jobs including as a busboy until he ...
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Leon's Bar-B-Q
Leon's Bar-B-Q is a chain of barbecue restaurants in Chicago. As one of the earliest barbecue establishments in the city, it played a role in the development of Chicago-style barbecue. History The restaurant was founded by Leon Finney Sr., originally of Mississippi, in 1940. It was one of the earliest barbecue establishments in Chicago. Along with other restaurants like Lem's Bar-B-Q, Leon's popularized the "Delta style" of barbecue that predominates in the South Side. This barbecue heavily features rib tips, a cheap cut of meat usually discarded by butchers, which are cooked in an "aquarium smoker". Rib tips soon became popular among the city's African-American restaurants, and today the cut has become more expensive. He originally sold ribs for 30¢ an order, but later closed the restaurant after price controls made it difficult to turn a profit. He eventually saved up enough money to open a new restaurant on 83rd Street several years later. The restaurant was successful, an ...
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Leon Finney Jr
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Chicago-style Barbecue
Chicago-style barbecue is a regional variation of barbecue in the United States, barbecue from the American city of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. The style developed due to immigration from other countries and parts of the United States. It is known for the invention of the aquarium Smoking (cooking), smoker and the prominence of rib tips and hot links. History The earliest barbecue restaurants in Chicago were established by African Americans who moved to Chicago from the Southern United States during Great Migration (African American), both Second Great Migration (African American), phases of the Great Migration from the south. Between 1910 and 1970, the number of African-Americans in Chicago increased from 50,000 to 1,000,000.About half a million Black Southerners settled in Chicago. Adjusting to the place and climate, [...] The cuisine they created, defined by rib tips, hot links, tomato-based barbecue sauce, and a unique, sweet-and-tangy condiment called mumbo sauce, was ne ...
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Barbara Ann's Bar-B-Que
Barbara Ann's Bar-B-Que was a barbecue restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. It was attached to the Barbara Ann's Motel, and both businesses were founded by Delars and Bertie Bracy in 1967. They named the businesses after their daughter Barbara Ann, who later became owner. It closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. History The restaurant was owned and operated in connection to an adjoining motel of the same name. The restaurant and motel were founded in 1967 by Delars Bracy, a criminal attorney originally from Ruleville, Mississippi, and his wife Bertie. They named the restaurant after their daughter Barbara Ann. They originally operated it with the help of two of Delars' brothers, one of whom had previously worked in the restaurant business. Barbara Ann later took over the restaurant. The restaurant was known for serving Chicago-style barbecue, including rib tips and hot links cooked in an aquarium smoker, using hickory and oak wood. They began experimenting with the use of the aqua ...
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Barbecue or barbeque (informally BBQ in the UK, US, and Canada, barbie in Australia and braai in South Africa) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that use live fire and smoke to cook the food. The term is also generally applied to the devices associated with those methods, the broader cuisines that these methods produce, and the meals or gatherings at which this style of food is cooked and served. The cooking methods associated with barbecuing vary significantly but most involve outdoor cooking. The various regional variations of barbecue can be broadly categorized into those methods which use direct and those which use indirect heating. Indirect barbecues are associated with North American cuisine, in which meat is heated by roasting or smoking over wood or charcoal. These methods of barbecue involve cooking using smoke at low temperatures and long cooking times, for several hours. Elsewhere, barbecuing more c ...
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