BAR-B-Q QUEEN

The Bar-B-Q Queen comes from a family with a long tradition of cooking. Her first introduction to cooking was at her grandmother's house. Her grandparents had moved from Georgia to a wooden house in Safety Harbor, Florida, and brought the Southern Soul Food tradition with them... Phillis' mother, called Sister Rayner, was the Bar-B-Q Diva. It started with family cookouts in the front yard. Sister Rayner barbecued, and Phillis' aunt made the potato salad and other sides. That's when the basic recipe for the barbecue sauce was developed too, just regular and hot then. Sister Rayner started making barbecue in the church parking lot to help with the building fund. Once the church expansion was finished, she took the business to her back yard. People came from miles around, even as far as Plant City, for the Bar-B-Q Diva's great ribs, chicken and sweet potato pies. Her husband built a pit in the wall of the carport and built a brick wall around it, but her dream was to move into a real..