MOOREVILLE – When Bart Bevill was a student at Mississippi State University, he got his first grill. And that’s how he learned to cook.
“We didn’t cook peas and cornbread,” said Bevill, 49. “We cooked hamburgers and hotdogs. We’d go to the grocery store and buy sirloin steak and use butter to try to make it more tender. That’s just what you did. We cooked a lot of burgers, steaks and chicken.”
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