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Title: Soul on ice: Can good food burdened with a bad rap finally find a place in its native land? (Food Business: Ethnic Foods).(soul food)
Author: Jack Neff
Publication: Food Processing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: Putman Media, Inc.
Volume: 63 Issue: 8 Page: 22(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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On a warm summer afternoon, Paul Sebron, a 48-year-old graduate of the Queen City Culinary Arts Academy who's also known as "Mr. Pig," is tending to his charcoal grill, made from an abandoned fuel oil tank. He's slow-cooking batches of barbecue pork ribs and chicken for what he hopes will be a robust evening crowd at Mr. Pig's. Sebron's signature rib tips are a near-legend in Cincinnati, winning high praise from the mayor and regular kudos from Cincinnati magazine. But Mr. Pig's eponymous eatery has a marketing problem. It's in the heart of Over-The-Rhine, a notoriously poor and crime-ridden neighborhood just north of downtown. In April 2001, the neighborhood was ground zero for...