Mike Mills Amy Mills 17th Street Barbecue

Mike Mills Amy Mills 17th Street Barbecue and Memphis Championship Barbecue

Amy Mills, Mike’s daughter, is a respected barbecue industry professional in her own right with her consulting company, OnCue Consulting. Together, the Millses co-authored the James Beard Award-nominated book Peace, Love and Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies. Their Mike Mills Amy Mills 17th Street Barbecue restaurants are local favorites and must-visit Illinois eateries.

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In the world of barbecue, champion pitmaster Mike Mills is affectionately known as
“The Legend.” He presides over

the pits at his five nationally acclaimed barbecue restaurants – three 17th Street Barbecue restaurants in Southern Illinois and two Memphis Championship Barbecue restaurants in Las Vegas.

In the early 1990s, he was co-captain of the Apple City Barbecue team, one of the most celebrated teams ever on the circuit. He is a four-time World Champion and three-time Grand World Champion atMemphis in May, otherwise known as the Super Bowl of Swine. He is also the 1992 Grand Champion of the Jack Daniel’s World Invitational Barbecue Cooking Contest and he won the Jack Daniel’s Sauce Contest that year as well.

Mike is the barbecue guru at and a partner in Blue Smoke restaurant in New York City. His book, Peace, Love, and Barbecue was nominated for a 2006 James Beard Foundation award and received the
2006 National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. In October 2008 he was honored with thePioneer of Barbecue award at the Jack Daniel’s World Invitational Barbecue Cooking Contest. Mike was inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame in 2010.

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