National Superhero Day-April 28th

The story behind the Bay Area’s iconic  
Everett and Jones Barbeque restaurants 
Smokin’ since 1973

​Brickhouse is a proposed new book about barbeque from the perspective of a Black 
woman.  Cue the music “Brick House” by the Commodores. This book will be a collection of fifty short stories of a legendary family of not eight, nine, or ten but eleven Black pitmasters from Oakland, CA, and nine of these pitmasters are dynamic black women who have been cooking delicious smoked meat on brick pits for 50 years. “Ow, what a winning hand!”  

My name is Shirley Everett-Dicko, and I was there from the beginning.  My new book will tell the story of my legendary family operating the iconic Everett and Jones Barbeque Restaurants for over 50 years in the Bay Area.  My late mother and five deceased siblings' legacy will live on through these short stories.

​Text © 2022 Shirley Everett-Dicko
Archive Images courtesy of Shirley Everett-Dicko 
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Cover art and Interior illustrations 
© 2022 Ken McGhee  
https://kensfunkyart.com/
Design by Tracy Cox 
Photography by Lori Eanes 
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