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| Updated: March 11, 2021, 3:03 p.m.
Marcus Jones said his Utah barbecue sauce and catering company launched in 2003, but it really began more than a century ago in Arkansas.
The Southern recipe originated with Jones’ great-grandfather, who passed it on to his grandmother Miss Essie. She passed it to her son, Manuel, who then launched the business with Jones a former University of Utah football player.
Miss Essie’s is one of dozens of Black-owned restaurants, food trucks, markets, caterers and producers in Utah.
A heightened push to back these businesses began last summer, when many consumers decided one way to fight racial inequity was to frequent Black-owned businesses. Since then, though, the focus has waned.
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Tony “Outset” Muriel, Dante “Outset” Rios and Nolan “Outset” Leyba reminisce about their friend, Thompson “Outset” Kamara, while talking to journalists in South Salt Lake on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. The group members all use the nickname “Outset,” which is the name of their music and fashion collective. Kamara, 21, was gunned down on Dec. 30, 2020, outside of the Salt Lake convenience store where he worked.
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SOUTH SALT LAKE Thompson Kamara’s friends say he wasn t just an outgoing and expressive person, he was a “super extrovert.”
“First time we hung out, I could tell there was a difference between him and I,” said Dante Rios. “So I literally went home and looked up introvert vs. extrovert and he’s the epitome of an extrovert.”