Editing Kansas City, Missouri (section)

==={{anchor|Cuisine}}Cuisine===
[[File:Bull-kemper.jpg|thumb|upright=2|The [[American Hereford Association]] bull, [[Kemper Arena]], and the [[Kansas City Live Stock Exchange]] Building are in the former [[Kansas City Stockyard]] of [[West Bottoms]].]]
Kansas City is famous for its [[steak]] and [[Kansas City-style barbecue]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visitkc.com/visitors/places-eat/kansas-city-barbecue-capital-world|title=Kansas City is the Barbecue Capital of the World|website=visitkc.com|date=September 9, 2014|access-date=February 6, 2024|archive-date=February 6, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206220448/https://www.visitkc.com/visitors/places-eat/kansas-city-barbecue-capital-world|url-status=live}}</ref> During the heyday of the [[Kansas City Stockyards]], the city was known for its Kansas City steaks or [[Strip steak|Kansas City strip steaks]]. The most famous of its steakhouses is the [[Golden Ox]] in the [[Kansas City Live Stock Exchange]] in the [[West Bottoms]] [[Feedlot|stockyards]]. These stockyards were second only to those of Chicago in size, but they never recovered from the [[Great Flood of 1951]] and eventually closed. [[Jess & Jim's Steakhouse]] was founded in 1938 in the [[Martin City, Missouri|Martin City neighborhood]].

The Kansas City Strip cut of steak is similar to the New York Strip cut, and is sometimes referred to just as a [[strip steak]]. Along with [[Texas]], [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]], [[North Carolina]], and [[South Carolina]], Kansas City is lauded as a "world capital of barbecue". More than 90 barbecue restaurants<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.experiencekc.com/barbeque.html |title=Experience Kansas City – Barbeque Kansas City Style |publisher=Experiencekc.com |access-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520012817/http://www.experiencekc.com/barbeque.html |archive-date=May 20, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> operate in the metropolitan area.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kansascitymag.com/10-best-kansas-city-bbq-spots-right-now/|title=The 10 Best BBQ Spots in Kansas City Right Now|website=Kansas City Magazine|access-date=August 1, 2023|archive-date=August 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801222249/https://kansascitymag.com/10-best-kansas-city-bbq-spots-right-now/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article252371028.html|title=In Kansas City style: How this Midwest hub became the barbeque capital of the world|last=Wells|first=Michael|date=September 14, 2022|website=[[The Kansas City Star]]|access-date=August 1, 2023|archive-date=December 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211217063757/https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kcq/article252371028.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[American Royal]] each fall hosts what it claims is the world's biggest barbecue contest.

[[File:P072914PS-1794 (14992509108).jpg|thumb|[[President Obama]] visits [[Arthur Bryant's]] barbecue.]]
Classic Kansas City-style barbecue was an inner-city phenomenon that evolved from the pit of [[Henry Perry (restaurateur)|Henry Perry]], a migrant from [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] who is generally credited with opening the city's first barbecue stand in 1921, and blossomed in the [[18th and Vine Historic District|18th and Vine]] neighborhood. [[Arthur Bryant's]] took over the Perry restaurant and added [[sugar]] to his sauce to sweeten the recipe a bit. In 1946 one of Perry's cooks, George W. Gates, opened Gates Bar-B-Q, later [[Gates and Sons Bar-B-Q]] when his son Ollie joined the family business. Bryant's and Gates are the two definitive Kansas City barbecue restaurants; native Kansas Citian and essayist Calvin Trillin famously called Bryant's "the single best restaurant in the world" in an essay he wrote for ''Playboy'' magazine in the 1960s. [[Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue]] is also well regarded. In 1977, [[Rich Davis]], a psychiatrist, test-marketed his own concoction called K.C. Soul Style Barbecue Sauce. He renamed it [[KC Masterpiece]], and in 1986, he sold the recipe to the [[Kingsford (charcoal)|Kingsford]] division of [[Clorox]]. Davis retained rights to operate restaurants using the name and sauce, whose recipe popularized the use of molasses as a sweetener in Kansas City-style barbecue sauces.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}

Kansas City has several [[James Beard Award]]-winning/nominated chefs and restaurants. Winning chefs include Michael Smith, [[Celina Tio]], Colby Garrelts, Debbie Gold, Jonathan Justus and Martin Heuser. A majority of the Beard Award-winning restaurants are in the Crossroads district, downtown and in Westport.