Arthur Bryant’s defeats Gates on Food Wars

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I love television that opens with slow motion shots of barbecue sauce being slathered on a rack of ribs. It’s the closest I can come to being a lion devouring an antelope. The Travel Channel’s Food Wars opened with a few mouth-watering shots of barbecue before host Camille Ford informed the audience that she was in “the town that lives and breathes barbecue.”

So on ozone alert days, it’s not asthma that we should worry about, it’s that brisket sandwich you’re trying to exhale around. But in the next 22 minutes, Food Wars intends to name the best ribs in Kansas City.