About Us --STUBB'S
GROWING UP
Stubb was born March 7, 1931 in
Navasota, a small town on Texas
Brazos river; one of 12 children born
to a Baptist evangelist preacher and his
wife. Some say that Stubb inherited his love
for cooking from his father who would
feed his congregation barbecue along with the gospel. Stubb recalls revival meetings followed by potluck dinners featuring beef, pork and even raccoon and possum. When he was still a young boy, Stubb and his family moved to a farm near Lubbock. Stubb spent much of his youth picking cotton.
THE ARMY YEARS
Many say it was in the U.S. Army where Stubb actually became a cook. Stubb joined the military and was assigned to the 96th Field Artillery Battalion, in one of the Armys last all African-American unit, as a gunner and tank driver in the Korean Conflict. Stubb served his unit and country honorably, and was decorated with two Purple Hearts in the process.Stubb was reassigned as a Mess Sergeant where his cooking became so popular that many officers tried to have Stubb transferred to their units. In a way, Stubbs mess hall was the first incarnation of a Stubbs Bar-B-Q restaurant. In addition to serving great food, Stubb would play popular records and broadcast them on the field radio so his buddies could hear. Never conventional in his cooking, Stubb would fry onion peelings in the morning, letting the aroma waft through camp to whet appetites.One time, he commandeered some Jell-O to make some sort of ice cream for the troops, and was known for making chili on the hot tail-pipe of an army tank. While the troops enjoyed his cooking, they would listen to Stubb tell stories of Texas and somehow home did not seem so far away.
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