New Book
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Brick House 

Looking for an agent/publisher for a proposed new barbeque book from a Black woman's perspective 50 years in the game.

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Brick House
This House is Smokin’

Brick House is a new proposed book about barbecue from the perspective of a Black woman.  Cue the music “Brick House” by the Commodores. This is the first in a series of inspiring stories of a legendary family of, not eight, nine, or ten, but eleven Black pitmasters from Oakland, CA, and nine of these pitmasters are dynamic black women who have been cooking delicious smoked meat on brick pits for almost 50 years. “Ow, what a winning hand”!

Shirley Everett-Dicko tells her legendary family’s story of operating the iconic Everett and Jones Barbeque restaurants for almost 50 years in the Bay Area.  Using parody, photos, eye popping Illustrations and short stories the book will show the authentic Black “barbeque” experience in a fun creative way.  Part memoir and part food, Shirley clears the smoke around the male-dominated narrative that only men (particularly white men) are the best pitmasters, and puts Black women on the frontline of the national American Barbecue debate.  Nine beautiful, classy, sassy, big-legged  queens (they got it from their mama) and their brick pits made history when they opened the first of many restaurants and have come to take their rightful place on the throne (Wakanda Forever!).
  
2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of Everett and Jones Barbeque who continues to grow and inspire its 4th generation of pitmasters. My late mother and 5 deceased siblings’s legacy will live on through these stories.   Quoting Ginger Rogers “I did everything he did but backwards and in heels.” 

Contact Shirley Everett-Dicko everettandjonesbarbeque@gmail.com