{"id":822,"date":"2024-07-31T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/90220.org\/?p=822"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T00:23:59","slug":"chef-kevin-bludso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/90220.org\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"CHEF KEVIN BLUDSO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bludso was born in 1965 in&nbsp;Compton, California.&nbsp;His father was a police officer at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Police Department; his mother was a postal service worker. While on summer vacation, Bludso lived with his aunt, Willie Mae Fields, in&nbsp;Corsicana, Texas.  Fields introduced him to&nbsp;Texas-style barbecue; at the age of 9 or 10, Bludso was allowed to help with the cooking.  He studied business at the&nbsp;Dallas-based&nbsp;Bishop College.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-829\" style=\"width:543px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-920x1380.jpg 920w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic-650x975.jpg 650w, https:\/\/90220.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/90220-bludso-pic.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to entering the food industry, Bludso worked as a&nbsp;correctional officer&nbsp;for thirteen years.  He opened Bludso&#8217;s BBQ in 2008, serving as its pit-master. Based in Compton, the restaurant shut down in September 2016, following a dispute with the landlord. Bludso also owns restaurants in Hollywood and Melbourne, Australia.  Since 2020, Bludso serves as a judge on the&nbsp;Netflix&nbsp;series&nbsp;<em>The American Barbecue Showdown<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/teb8Xpf6awA?si=AMKmLrTZ1o_J91g5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2urbangirls.com?action=user_content_redirect&amp;uuid=835caae3c50fcff40caf74c036f0c6488341827c2ac5fd58a7aebe5e35dc601c&amp;blog_id=52189823&amp;post_id=140197&amp;user_id=86029509&amp;subs_id=67531313&amp;signature=2d8a392365dfb4442b5c67ae29d6ae71&amp;email_name=new-post&amp;user_email=jobcollaborative@aol.com&amp;encoded_url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmx1ZHNvc2JicS5jb20vYWJvdXQ&amp;email_id=94ade19052c6ea11a24083141222e024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em><u>Bludso\u2019s BBQ<\/u><\/em><\/a> is a California BBQ restaurant owned by television personality, James Beard Award Winner, and two-time Steve Harvey Hoodie Award Winner Kevin Bludso. Both businesses give back to their communities. <em>Bludso\u2019s BBQ<\/em>\u00a0runs a scholarship program to support Black students in the Compton School District where Kevin Bludso was born and raised, and <em>Tansy <\/em>hosts their Teen Titan internship program to help young girls gain skills that teach them how to run a business effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bludso was born in 1965 in&nbsp;Compton, California.&nbsp;His father was a police officer at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Police Department; his mother was a postal service worker. While on summer vacation, Bludso lived with his aunt, Willie Mae Fields, in&nbsp;Corsicana, Texas. Fields introduced him to&nbsp;Texas-style barbecue; at the age of 9 or 10, Bludso was allowed to help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/90220.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}