I have always loved cooking, almost as much as I have enjoyed eating. Columbia, My hometown, has afforded a great variety of foods to try throughout the years and inspiration to cook them myself. Barbecue has been one of the great influences in my journey. Through out the Midwest and beyond I have always sought out the barbecue that made a city unique. I have enjoyed some really great dishes. Then it occurred to me that Columbia, in the middle of Missouri, is also in the middle of the great barbecue cultures of America.