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Culinary Arts

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Caterer, Chef, Pitmaster

Plato Jones

Athens, Alabama | 1909

Jones, a former slave, had barbecuing skills that were so renowned the United Daughters of the Confederacy asked him to cater a luncheon for Confederate veterans for the unveiling of the Confederate memorial on the Limestone County Courthouse Square in 1909.

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