Baseball And Bbq

Episode 310 features The Barbeque Princess, Leslie Roark Scott who is from a family with an important deep-rooted barbecue history and Jim Leeke the author of Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano Leslie Roark Scott is known as The Barbeque Princess.  She is the owner and pitmaster of Ubons Restaurant in Yazoo City, MS, and is the chief pitmaster of Ubons Competition BBQ Team. Leslie was a featured chef at the James Beard House and she and her crew can be seen on the Food Network shows Chopped, SmokeMasters, Beat Bobby Flay, BBQ USA, as well as BBQ Pitmasters and Smoked. The Ubons competition team has won titles across the country including the Houston Live Stock and Rodeo BBQ, Memphis in May, and The Jack Daniels World Championships. Jim Leeke is a journalist, copywriter, and author.  His latest book is Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano.  Big Loosh is the biography of Ron Luciano, an outsized figure who was a Major League Baseball umpire in the 1970s, worked in broadcasting, publish