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Sonny McKnight, the Affable Pitmaster That Led Red Hot & Blue to National Success, Dies at 74
The “magnetic” first employee at the Memphis-style barbecue chain worked there for 30 years
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Ernest McKnight, the pitmaster and executive chef who helped grow Red Hot & Blue from a Rosslyn, Virginia, barbecue joint to an international chain in the 90s, died of lung cancer January 17. He was 74.
A short, wiry man, McKnight spent more than 50 years in kitchens, working with a level of speed and enthusiasm that immediately caught the attention of Wendell Moore, a co-founder of the hickory-burning, Memphis-style barbecue restaurant that scouted McKnight while he was working at a downtown food court. McKnight went by “Sonny,” but his boss liked to call him “the Blur.”