Kansas City barbecue refers to the specific inner city style of barbecue that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry in the early 1900s in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is renowned for barbecue. Kansas City, Missouri has more than 100 barbecue restaurants and is known in Missouri as "world's barbecue capital." There are large, well attended barbecue cooking contests, the two most notable being in Lenexa, Kansas and at the American Royal. Historically, however, Kansas City's first recorded barbecuer was Henry Perry (honerary Hog). Perry started working out of an old trolley barn at 19th & Highland and, by 1908, was serving up succulent slow-cooked ribs on pages of newsprint for 25 cents a slab. That old barn was the training ground for local barbecue legends like George Gates and Charlie Bryant. Bryant bought "Old Man Perry's" place and ran it with the help of his brother Arthur, later dubbed "King Arthur." When Charlie retired in 1946, Arthur replaced the wooden tables with Formica, covered the sawdust floor with linoleum, and tinkered with the sauce enough to earn the eatery the title of best restaurant in the world by columnist and Kansas City native Calvin Trillin. Famous faces such as Presidents Carter and Truman have visited ARTHUR BRYANT'S, long standing at 1727 Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri.
6/17/08
Kansas City-style barbecue- History pt:1
Kansas City barbecue refers to the specific inner city style of barbecue that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry in the early 1900s in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Metropolitan Area is renowned for barbecue. Kansas City, Missouri has more than 100 barbecue restaurants and is known in Missouri as "world's barbecue capital." There are large, well attended barbecue cooking contests, the two most notable being in Lenexa, Kansas and at the American Royal. Historically, however, Kansas City's first recorded barbecuer was Henry Perry (honerary Hog). Perry started working out of an old trolley barn at 19th & Highland and, by 1908, was serving up succulent slow-cooked ribs on pages of newsprint for 25 cents a slab. That old barn was the training ground for local barbecue legends like George Gates and Charlie Bryant. Bryant bought "Old Man Perry's" place and ran it with the help of his brother Arthur, later dubbed "King Arthur." When Charlie retired in 1946, Arthur replaced the wooden tables with Formica, covered the sawdust floor with linoleum, and tinkered with the sauce enough to earn the eatery the title of best restaurant in the world by columnist and Kansas City native Calvin Trillin. Famous faces such as Presidents Carter and Truman have visited ARTHUR BRYANT'S, long standing at 1727 Brooklyn in Kansas City, Missouri.
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