Why This Queer Black Chef Decided To Open A Barbecue Restaurant

Dominique Leach is the owner of Lexington Betty’s Smokehouse in Chicago. A native Chicagoan, she worked at the famed restaurant Spiaggia and The Art Institute of Chicago before starting her own catering company, which became a food truck and later her own restaurant. Leach has appeared on The Food Network twice and last year she earned the title of “Best BBQ in Chicago” from “Good Morning America.”

I grew up in Chicago, in a neighborhood called Humboldt Park. I’m really proud of the neighborhood I came from. I come from a single-parent household and Mom was at work a lot, so a lot of the time, I kind of shuffled into the mom role and cooked a lot of dinners on a lot of nights. It was fun to me, and at the time I had no idea it would become a career.

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