October 29, 2010

In this city, a much-heralded emblem of industrial-age decline, and home to a cripplingly bad economy, a troubled school system, racial segregation and sometimes unheeded crime, there is one place where most everyone — black, white, poor, rich, urban, not — will invariably recommend you eat: Slows Bar B Q.

— Slows Bar-B-Q in Detroit Has Renewal on the Menu - NYTimes.com

I have a slight man-crush on Phillip Cooley. Would love to meet that guy some day. Really inspiring story about Detroit’s renewal.