
Paul Kirk, Johnson County’s ‘Baron of Barbecue’ and hall of famer, dies at 84
Paul Kirk, a Kansas City barbecue legend from Roeland Park, died on May 26 at the age of 84. Over the past four decades, Kirk became known as the Kansas City Baron of Barbecue. He was an award-winning pitmaster, a chef, an author/co-author of 12 books, …