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Get saucy Wide range of delicious flavors found in K.C.-style barbecue sauces

By KEVIN KRAUSKOPF

that immediately came to mind when Kansas City-style barbecue sauce was mentioned used to be Arthur Bryantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tangier and not as sweet as the baseline for tohereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a reason Kansas City is fa- dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s K.C.-style sauces. mous for barbecue â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a lot of Todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standards, he says, combine the best of reit has to do with that deliciously gional styles like Carolina, Memphis, Texas and Souththick, sweet, smoky sauce. ern barbecue to achieve a broad taste with a wide apâ&#x20AC;&#x153;The Kansas City barbecue peal. The key marker of a Kansas City sauce, though, sauce is the pinnacle of the food is typically the sweetness that comes from ingredients pyramid,â&#x20AC;? laughs Dan Hathaway, like brown sugar, molasses and honey. In fact, Mr. Hawho runs The Kansas City BBQ thaway says some popular takes on Kansas City barbeStore that operates alongside cue sauce today are â&#x20AC;&#x153;sweet enough to eat on pancakes.â&#x20AC;? Oklahoma Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in Olathe, Kan. (Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll stick with ribs, brisket and burnt ends, thank However, Mr. Hathaway says the prototypical Kan- you very much.) sas City sauce (if such a thing can be pinpointed) has It is worth mentioning, though, that K.C. sauces are shifted over the last 15 or so years. The old standard known for their distinct, layered flavor profi le, and

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there is not one variety that defi nes regional sauces. As mentioned before, the brown sugar, molasses and honey found in many recipes contribute several layers of sweet. Cayenne pepper, chili powder, hot sauce and other such ingredients can be added to pile on the heat. Many recipes call for steak sauce or Worchestshire sauce to be added to the tomato-y base. Inject even more flavor into the sauce by adding garlic, onions or chipotle pepper. Mix in several of these and test different quantities to give your barbecue sauce a rich, complex and unique flavor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That sort of thing is huge in barbecue sauces today,â&#x20AC;? Mr. Hathaway says. Really, the possibilities are endless. Using a standard Please see SAUCE/Page 3

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Json Myers talks with students from Missouri Western State University about the empty lot across the street from the old fire station he and Megan Gallant are turning into an experiment in permaculture.

Permaculture revolution at the old fire station Artists planting seeds of ‘ahh’ at Spark Farm Park By SYLVIA ANDERSON St. Joseph News-Press

There’s a buzz going on at the intersection of 18th and Felix streets in St. Joseph. And it’s not just the bees. Cars drive by slowly with faces peering out the windows to see what’s going on. Neighbors walking their dogs stop and check on the progress. “I was planting something last fall and a group of boys 12 to 13 years old came

by, bouncing their basketballs,” says Megan Gallant, who lives here. “One of them stops and says, ‘You do all this?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ Then he said, ‘It’s beautiful’ and ran away.” At this intersection, there was once an abandoned firehouse in such disrepair that a tree was growing out of the kitchen floor. Nearby was a windowless fire tower that cost $1 million to build in the 1950s. It was used for practicing drills and rappelling by

firefighters. But after being shut down in 1962, it became a fortress for pigeons. Across from the firehouse was a sad, vacant lot owned by a man from out of state who thought buying it and some neighboring lots at a tax sale for a few bucks would bring him big profits in the future. He didn’t maintain the property and let the grass grow, becoming a nuisance to the neighborhood. But in 2002, Json My-

ers was visiting a friend in St. Joseph and saw the fire tower and knew he could make this a better place. Megan soon joined him after he installed plumbing and electricity and fixed the roof so the snow wouldn’t come through. Both are artists and graduates of the Kansas City Art Institute. The original goal was to turn the firehouse into an art studio that could accom-

modate the large sculptures they work on. “We were both producing artists, so it was more important to have our studios going and sleep in our studios than have a nice house,” Json says. But a health condition of Json’s changed their course to expand their vision. After being tested for seven Please see PERMALTURE/Page 3

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Sauce is key for K.C.-style barbecue CONTINUED FROM page 1 Kansas City-style sauce as a base, or making your own from scratch, it’s quick and simple to tailor KC barbecue to your own tastes. A few recipes to get you started:

1/2 cup brown sugar 5 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons paprika 2 tablespoons chili powder 1 tablespoon chipotle powder (optional) 4 finely chopped garlic cloves 1/2 medium onion, finely chopped Salt to taste Cayenne to taste

— bbq.about.com

Barbecue sauce tips

❯ Don’t be cheap. Mr. Hathaway says to never skimp on the quality of the ingredients you are using. For instance, a cheap ketchup, all other things KC Classic being equal, will produce Barbecue Sauce a sauce with a completely Prep time: 15 minutes different flavor, he says. Heat the butter in a pot Cook time: 15 minutes over medium heat for two to ❯ Find what you like. Even Yield: 6 cups three minutes minutes. Add with high-quality ingredithe onion and sauté until ents, small differences in 2 tablespoons American chili it begins to brown. Add the powder what you make your sauce garlic and sauté for another with can have a big impact 1 teaspoon ground black two minutes. Pour in the on the end result. “Heinz is pepper remaining ingredients and completely different than 1 teaspoon table salt stir well to combine. Simmer Hunt’s. ... You either like slowly for at least 30 min2 cups ketchup the sweet stuff with Hunt’s utes, up to two hours. 1/2 cup yellow mustard or you like the vinegary — simplyrecipes.com 1/2 cup cider vinegar stuff with Heinz, and you 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce just go from there,” Mr. Hathaway says. 1/4 cup lemon juice Kansas City 1/4 cup steak sauce ❯ Add ingredients slowly. Rib Sauce Several online resources 1/4 cup dark molasses This is a rich, thick, tomatopoint out that you can 1/4 cup honey based barbecue sauce always add more cayenne recipe with a combination of 1 teaspoon hot sauce sweet and heat. Adjust the pepper or hot sauce to give 1 cup dark brown sugar heat by changing the amount barbecue sauce a kick, but of cayenne. 3 tablespoons vegetable oil you can’t subtract it once Prep Time: 10 minutes you’ve mixed it in. Add such 1 medium onion, finely Cook Time: 15 minutes chopped ingredients in increments, Yield: Makes about 2 cups and taste-test the batch 1 cup ketchup 4 medium cloves of garlic, after each addition. crushed or minced 1/4 cup water ❯ Wait ‘til the end. The In a small bowl, mix the 1/4 cup vinegar American chili powder, sugar content typical of 1/4 cup brown sugar black pepper and salt. In a Kansas City-style sauce 3 tablespoons olive oil large bowl, mix the ketchup, causes it to burn quickly, 2 tablespoons paprika mustard, vinegar, WorcesMr. Hathaway says. If you tershire, lemon juice, steak 1 tablespoon chili powder are using the sauce as a sauce, molasses, honey, hot 2 cloves garlic, minced glaze or otherwise cooksauce and brown sugar. Mix ing with it, wait until the 1 teaspoon cayenne them, but you don’t have to last five or 10 minutes the mix thoroughly. Heat oil in a saucepan. meat is on the grill to apOver medium heat, warm Add garlic and sauté until ply said glaze. the oil in a large saucepan. brown. Add remaining inAdd the onions and saute until limp and translucent, about five minutes. Crush the garlic, add it, and cook for another minute. Add the dry spices and stir for about two minutes to extract their oil-soluble flavors. Add the wet ingredients. Simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes with the lid off to thicken it a bit.

gredients and reduce heat. Simmer for 15 minutes until thickened.

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Permalture revolution at the old fire station CONTINUED FROM page 2 diseases, Json learned his agony was due to the food he ate, in particular gluten. Megan began extensive research to learn more. “Nature never meant to grow things in mono-culture,” Megan says, “where you grow things in mass.” The owner of the vacant property across from the firehouse had apparently become frustrated with all the bills from the city to mow his property, Json says, and poured gasoline all over the land to kill the grass. Json knew it was time to push harder to get the property. In the fall of 2011, Json had the rest of the vision for the property after he was certified in Permaculture and Superadobe Building at CalEarth in Hesperia, Calif. “Permaculture means permanent culture,” Json says. The idea has been around since the early 1970s, but it is having a rebirth and then some. It’s defined as systems of living that leave a situation better than how we found it. The core ideas are respectful care of people, the planet and benevolent distribution of goods and surplus. And it’s the opposite of traditional farming. “Anyone knows that we’re destroying the lands, affecting our water tables,” Json says. “We run our crops all the way to the river edge, then all those chemicals we put on them to make them survive because they are out of their habitat runs off into the water. Then we have to put bleach in the water to give it back to the people.” He notes the large walnut tree growing at one end of the lot. It gives off a toxin in its roots that makes other plants unable to grow around it. But a nearby hackberry tree, with much deeper roots, is able to neutralize the toxins so plants can grow there. “Nature has all of these symbiotic relationships that it creates to help balance the system,” he said. “We, as humans, are coming in and destroying those relationships, and that’s why we have so many problems with our crops.” It’s not right to demonize farmers,

though, he says. His grandfather and uncle were farmers, and he remembers when they were encouraged to switch to mono crops with government subsidies, and now they are stuck in a system they can’t get out of. “We can take the pressure off if we start taking care of ourselves,” he says. “When completed, this park is not going to feed just us, it’s going to feed our neighborhood.” Sparks Park and Sculpture Garden, as they call it, already is making progress toward a formal opening next spring, although it may not look like it for those used to traditional methods. There will be no tilling, he says. Instead you will see raised beds throughout the property called Hugelkultur beds. They are made of tree limbs, branches and logs covered with cut grass, green weeds, food carps and then some top soil. “That is my fertilizer for the next five years,” he says. It will work down deep into the soil. Fertilizer and pesticides will not be needed. Large ditches dug on the contour of the land are called swales. They direct the rainwater and keep it in the soil and stop runoff. There are Italian honey bee nests for making honey, which are taken care of with natural systems rather than chemicals. Among the growing plants will be sculptures. Json recently received a Rocket Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. It will allow them to invite three national artists to display their work in the garden for a year. The garden also will be an educational model demonstrating what they are doing and allowing neighbors to help themselves to what they grow. “We find there is a relationship between nature and art,” Megan says. “That’s part of my inspiration for the park — for it to be a beautiful oasis of natural beauty, for that one moment to catch your breath and go ‘ahh.’” Sylvia Anderson can be reached at sylvia.anderson@newspressnow.com.

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