How to Make Kansas City Barbecue

How to Make Kansas City Barbecue. In Kansas City, barbecue is dry-rubbed, cooked for hours, and served with a distinctive sauce. You will need Meat 1 c. smoked paprika or pimentón 1/4 c. plus 1 tbsp. salt 1/4 c. plus 2 tbsp. ground black pepper 1/4 c. plus 1 tbsp. granulated sugar 2 tbsp. garlic granules 1 tbsp. garlic powder 2 tbsp. oregano 2 tbsp. powdered yellow mustard 4 tbsp. dark chili powder, divided Yellow mustard 1 c. strong coffee 1/2 c. Worcestershire sauce 1/4 c. unsalted butter 4 c. ketchup, divided 1/2 c. water 1/2 c. cider vinegar 1/2 c. tomato paste 2/3 c. brown sugar 2 tsp. onion powder 1 tsp. ground celery seed 1 tsp. smoked salt New gloves Smoker or barbecue pit Wood chips Meat thermometer and basting brush or sauce mop. Step 1. Get the meat. In some regions, barbecue focuses on specific types of meat, but in Kansas City anything and everything can be barbecued. Use your favorite beef, pork, and poultry. Step 2. Prepare the dry rub. Mix the paprika, ¼ cup of salt, ¼ cup of black pepper, sugar, garlic granules and powder, oregano, powdered mustard, and 2 tablespoons of dark chili powder together. Put on your gloves, coat the meat in yellow mustard and liberally sprinkle the seasonings over the meat.

Let the meat stand at room   temperature for one hour before grilling to allow the seasonings to penetrate. Step 3. Make the mop by mixing the coffee, Worcestershire sauce, butter, 1 cup of ketchup, and 1 tablespoon each of pepper, sugar and salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 30 minutes. Allow it to cool. Step 4. Oil the grill rack, and prepare the barbecue pit or smoker according to its instructions, using hickory wood chips to flavor the meat. Maintain a temperature between 250 and 300 degrees.


Step 5. Cook the meat for one to two hours per pound depending on the meat. Consult a cookbook for exact cooking times. Starting an hour after you begin cooking, apply the mop to the meat with a sauce mop or brush every hour. Step 6. Make the thick, sweet sauce Kansas City barbecue is famous for. Mix 2 tablespoons of yellow mustard, the remaining ketchup, water, vinegar, tomato paste, brown sugar, onion and chili powder, black pepper, celery seed, and smoked salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil then simmer for 20 to 25 minutes or until it thickens, stirring often. Make a Kansas City favorite known as “burnt ends” by trimming the charred edges and ends off of beef brisket or pork, chopping them into bite-size pieces, and serving them with plenty of sauce.

Step 7. Slather the sauce on the meat about 10 minutes before you take it out of the smoker and serve it alongside the finished product for extra dipping. That's good eating! Did you know The man credited with inventing Kansas City-style barbecue is Henry Perry, who sold slow-cooked meats from an alley stand, at the beginning of the 20th century..

Why Kansas City is (Mostly) in Missouri

Why is the Kansas City most people think of the one that’s in Missouri? Well strangely, Kansas City, Missouri existed first. First known as The City of Kansas, it was incorporated on February 22, 1853. Its residents named it after the Kansa, a Native American tribe that the residents of Kansas also named their state after later on.

Keep in mind that Kansas didn’t exist yet in 1853. The next year, it became a territory and it didn’t become a state until 1861. It wasn’t until October 1872 that a few smaller towns all together to officially form Kansas City, Kansas. Of course, this was after Kansas City, Missouri’s population had skyrocketed. Before the Civil War, KCMO had less than 5,000 people. A decade later, it was approaching 35,000. The folks in KCK wanted to piggyback on the success of KCMO and essentially confuse visitors into thinking THEY were the real Kansas City. I should mention that before this, Kansas politicians made several attempts to annex KCMO and the surrounding area into Kansas.


The Kansas City Times editorial board wrote, “Kansas City, Mo, is the legitimate outgrowth of the state of Kansas. In everything but a line on the map she is essentially a city of Kansas.” Unfortunately for Kansas, Missourians didn’t want to lose KCMO because you know, KCMO is awesome, so they fought back. Since then, the two cities and their suburbs have thrived in their own ways, but KCMO often dominates the headlines. Freaking KCMO. Anyway, how about this street behind me? It divides not just KCK and KCMO, but Kansas and Missouri further to the south. It's called State Line Road, and it's one of the most unique borders in the world. A street that divides two states presents unique challenges. For example, it used to be you'd find a lot of 18-year olds crossing the street to over there at night and then later that night stumbling back this way Because the drinking age was 18 over there but it was 21 over   here on the Missouri side Another example of this is the fact that if you drive down State Line Road you see that most of the businesses are on the Missouri side, where the taxes are lower.



But how and why did State Line Road come to be? The earliest mention of State Line Road comes from an 1872 directory. Back then, it was just a few blocks long. Just like today, people went back and forth across the border like it was nothing. Back then, this was where the cows were. In fact, cows could often be in both states at the same time. The stockyards straddled the border so that people could more easily conduct business on both sides of the state line, sometimes within the same building.

Soon though, it became apparent that a road separating the stockyards made it easier to move about to conduct such business. As the cities and their suburbs grew to the south, so did State Line Road. Today, it stretches nearly 14 miles. If you visit Kansas City today, you'd likely not be able to tell the difference crossing back and forth across the border. Both sides are awesome. Ironically, though, it's Kansas City Missouri that's still growing at a much quicker rate than Kansas City Kansas.

No Way Out: Human Trafficking in Kansas City

Today, human trafficking is a 32-billion dollar industry, and it’s on the rise. And, the reason for that is that individuals who were previously trafficking in arms—and narcotics—are slowly shifting or incorporating the sale of human beings. It truly is modern-day slavery. The task force was launched formally in 2006. Initially there was kind of shock, that, “Why is there a human trafficking initiative here? This is the heart of America. This is part of the Bible Belt. There’s not going to be human trafficking problem in the midwest.” And then, sure enough, one by one, the cases started coming up. We prosecuted more cases in Kansas City than anywhere in the nation. The first few cases that we prosecuted were so, so shocking to our community. The China Rose case was a case involving Asian massage parlors. They would recruit young, primarily Chinese women. They thought they were coming to the United States to work in more of a white-collar field as secretaries, or something more professional. When they smuggled the women into the country, instead of placing them in office environments, they placed them in massage parlors.

One of the most disturbing things about human trafficking is the fact that it happens in areas not just in the worst parts of the city, but it also happens in fancy hotels, and in upscale and upper-class areas right under everyone’s noses. Human trafficking largely falls into two categories, forced labor trafficking and commercial sex trafficking. Forced labor trafficking has no commercial sex component. A lot of the time these are individuals who have been lured into the United States at the promise of a better life—either smuggled in illegally or brought in on fraudulent visas—and then they’re lured into a labor scheme that they can’t get out of. They said if we complain, they’re going to send us back to the Philippines. They always used that word to scare us—“send us back.” I was working so hard to pay my debt. We were trapped in that agency. I think there was no way out. Despite the fact that we’re here in the midwest in Kansas City, Missouri,   we’ve investigated and prosecuted the full range of cases. So we haven’t just done commercial sex trafficking or just done forced labor.

We haven’t just had domestic victims; we’ve also had international victims. Once we started getting cases and it was shocking to the community and we got a lot of publicity— Something very interesting happened as far as the media’s role. What they did was educate the public that there was a problem here. And by the end of when I left in 2013, most of our leads in our cases were in fact coming in from the public who had now been educated about what human trafficking was. It’s a crime that really lives in the shadows. Traffickers know how to hide it. They know how to coerce their victims to stay hidden.




And, I think that’s one of the most, um, disturbing and frightening things for the public to realize—that such a horrifying offense, modern-day slavery—can be happening within, um, kind of the fabric of the community..

Welcome to the University of Missouri – Kansas City

On behalf of all the faculty and staff here at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, I want to welcome you to our campus, and to our UMKC family. The contributions of this university to Kansas City and the region, in such areas as the liberal arts, health sciences, engineering, business, and performing arts, span the scope of academic accomplishments. As a student enrolled in an online program at UMKC, you have joined a community of excellence that will help you reach your goals, in education and beyond. This orientation site covers the knowledge and resources you will need to get started in your online program and be a successful online student at UMKC. The getting started section introduces you to Blackboard, the web portal through which you will interact with your professors and peers. You’ll learn how to be a successful online student, how to access your student email, and get comfortable with the technology you’ll be using in your online courses. A successful college experience begins with advising.

This section connects you with an academic advisor who will guide your progress towards graduation. It also connects you to campus services for disability accommodations, Title IX offices, and Career Services. Online students at UMKC also have access to flexible tutoring services, online or in person. The registration section provides connections to the campus registrar, cashier, and the financial aid office. This section also covers the law relating to your privacy as a student and shows you how to access the academic calendar. UMKC Central is a one-stop resource for questions about admissions, financial aid, and registration. Online students can access all of the essential campus resources that UMKC offers. The university libraries offer live chat with a librarian, in addition to research coaching, databases, and interlibrary loans.



Consider bookmarking this page in your browser; this orientation will remain available to you throughout your studies. You’ve made a great choice in picking UMKC,   Kansas City’s university. Our students come from all over the region and the world, making UMKC internationally recognized for its research and community leadership. Welcome to the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the place for people going places..

Kansas City’s Civil War History

Located in Kansas CIty's historic City Market, the Arabia Steamboat Museum boasts the largest collection of pre-Civil War artifacts in the world. These artifacts, recovered from the hold of the sunken Steamboat Arabia, are rich in beauty as well as history. Excavated from a Kansas cornfield, the Arabia carried dishware, jewelry, silks from China and perfumes from France. Among many other fascinating pieces of cargo, a full-scale replica of the Arabia's main deck brings the size   and strength of the steamboat to life. This exciting, visitor-friendly museum provides keener insight into the nostalgic past of the steamboat era and gives visitors a sense of Midwestern living prior to the Civil War. The Battle of Westport, fought in and around modern day Kansas City, signaled the beginning of the end for General Price and his Confederate Army. Often called the Gettysburg of the West, this battle, which engaged almost 30,000 troops, was a triumphant victory for the Union army. The Monnett Battle of Westport Fund offers downloadable brochures for a 25-stop walking tour of Westport and a driving tour of the 23 major battle sites, available at www.BattleofWestport.org.

Area Westport businesses supply these brochures as well. Today, Kansas City's Loose Park preserves much of the battlegrounds and commemorates the fight with markers that tell the story of this critical battle. The Harris-Kearney House, built in 1855, sits in the middle of modern day Westport along what was once the Santa Fe Trail. The home's original owner, John Harris, was also the proprietor of the Harris Hotel, which is no longer standing. Many well-known names of the day patronized the hotel, like the James and Younger brothers, Buffalo Bill and Wyatt Earp. Union General Samuel Curtis headquartered at the Harris Hotel and, during the Battle of Westport, he stood on the hotel's roof with his binoculars as the fighting raged throughout the town. As Kansas City's oldest brick home, the Harris-Kearney House preserves many of the family's original Civil War-era furnishings, like this beautifully-restored pianoforte. The John Wornall House Museum, once called the most pretentious house in the section, was occupied by both Union and Confederate troops and used as an emergency field hospital during the 1864 Battle of Westport.




Now embedded in the bustling community of Brookside, the Wornall House was once the center of a sprawling 500-acre farm on the Missouri frontier. Visitors today can experience the house as if in the 1860s, as the house's interior and furnishings accurately reflect the time period. Gardens located behind the house grow historically-accurate herbs and perennials. The museum features many special events throughout the year for children and adults alike, with special Christmas tours and frequently-changing exhibits.

The Battle of Westport Museum, located inside the Swope Park Interpretive Center, sits on what was once Byram's Ford, where a major portion of the battle was fought. The museum features a hands-on education room, with an authentic Civil War soldier's campsite. The Faces of War Room is dedicated to the civilians, families and slaves affected by the Civil War. The museum holds artifacts recovered from the battlefield and tintype photos of soldiers who lived in the Kansas City area and fought for their lives in the Battle of Westport..