Jacksonville restaurateur Jerome Brown bottles his barbecue sauce

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A true Springfield business success!

With two successful barbecue joints, which includes this one on Main Street, Jerome Brown now is selling his Original Bar-B-Q Sauce at Sam’s Wholesale Club. Brown’s daughter, Katrina, was the driving force behind getting her father’s barbecue sauce sold in stores.

By Tonyaa Weathersbee
When Jerome Brown was a teenager, he thought he’d wind up making a living mixing music.

That was in the 1970s and early ’80s, when he was known as Jerome “Get Down” Brown. He spun records at Skate City and at now-defunct clubs such as Big Art’s Little Place.

“You had to remember what people wanted to hear, and it was really fun,” he said. “I had a good time, even though I couldn’t dance. But I knew how to hop around, and as a disc jockey, you had to hop around a lot.”

Now Brown is poised to make a fortune not by blending sounds, but flavors.

In 1985, Brown, now 53, decided to hew to the culinary instincts he had honed since he was a child. After spending years serving meals to elderly people through the Meals on Wheels program, and after running the kitchen at Maxwell House, Brown opened two barbecue joints â€" one on Edgewood Avenue and the other on Main Street in Springfield.

Full article: http://jacksonville.com/entertainment/food-and-dining/2010-05-11/story/jacksonville-restaurateur-jerome-brown-bottles-his