Thanks to barbeque mastermind Amy Mills for posting this photo on Twitter. This is from her family’s BBQ restaurant in Murphysboro, Illinois. Amy is a University of Missouri journalism grad and the co-author (with her father) of the forthcoming Praise the Lard: Recipes and Revelations from a Legendary Life in Barbecue (Houghton Mifflin, Spring 2017).
the original non-Photoshopped pic –
Happy to broadcast your words of wisdom! So appreciate you sharing.
Huge admirer of your important work.
We’ll look forward to welcoming you if you’re ever back in Southern Illinois.
Warm regards,
Amy Mills
Thanks very much, Amy! I hope your book becomes a bestseller.