Ceramicist Andrew Gilliatt fondly remembers his post-grad years living in Kansas City as a time of self-discovery and growth. “Call it kismet, fortune or dumb luck, but the four and a half years I spent in Kansas City were some of my most transformative years as an artist and a person,” Gilliatt says. The then-fledgling… Continue reading In With the Old
Bill Chaney can fire up a pit, but he draws the line at cooking barbecue. “I’m only the builder,” says the 95-year-old brick mason. “I couldn’t tell you anything about the cooking or the recipes.” In 1956, Chaney built a pit for Russ Fiorella, the founder of Jack Stack Barbecue, igniting a decades-long career working… Continue reading How one brick mason quietly built Kansas City’s barbecue tradition
