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Jones Bar-B-Q should be smoking again
Fund-raising to rebuild the legendary
Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna seems likely to be enough to restore the James Beard award winner.
A pit fire Sunday put the modest diner out of business. But owner James Jones vowed to rebuild and national attention to the fire brought an outpouring of help.
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Two Go Fund Me pages have raised almost $75,000 so far and other money has been promised from separate sources, including, according to the New York Times, a $25,000 emergency grant from Southern Restaurants for Racial Progress, a program in partnership with the LEE Initiative.
Fire Damages Jonesâ Bar-B-Q, a Historic Black-Owned Business
James Jones, the owner and pitmaster of the award-winning Arkansas restaurant, vows to rebuild.
A grease fire that started in the barbecue pit of Jonesâ Bar-B-Q Diner spread to the roof and burned 70 percent of the restaurant, according to the local fire chief.Credit.Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism
March 1, 2021
Smoke doesnât normally concern James Harold Jones. It was the flames he saw in the barbecue pit at Jonesâ Bar-B-Q Diner, his familyâs restaurant in Marianna, Ark., that made him worry on Sunday morning.
âI donât usually have no flame,â Mr. Jones said of his time-honored technique for cooking pork shoulders over low heat. âI have coals.â
The American South
During the pandemic, chef Edward Lee helped feed people in nearly 20 cities, including Atlanta, Seattle, Nashville, Houston, New Orleans, Brooklyn, Raleigh, Los Angeles, and his hometown Louisville, Kentucky where he runs the restaurants 610 Magnolia and Whiskey Dry. His LEE Initiative has used money from donors like Audi and Maker s Mark and support from chefs across the country to turn idle restaurants into relief kitchens. The restaurant s staff got paid, and hungry people ate. The basis of activism is right there in the word, it s to be active, Lee said. You have to actively participate, not just write a check, not just cook a dinner at a gala.