Podcasts Arts Food Special Sauce with Ed Levine Dinosaur BBQ's John Stage on His Unlikely Path to Pitmaster

Dinosaur BBQ's John Stage on His Unlikely Path to Pitmaster

Published: Aug. 25, 2016, 11:10 p.m.

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On this week's Special Sauce, John Stage, founder of the insanely popular barbecue mini-chain Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, reveals the unusual way he discovered his calling. Growing up, Stage had a soft spot for his mother's Italian-American cooking, especially her lasagna; his father, Stage tells us with a chuckle, was the one who taught him to drink. But he didn't take an interest in cooking for a living until he ran afoul of the law at age 18.

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