Family-owned barbecue right in neighborhood

By Omar Sacirbey

Globe Correspondent / May 21, 2008

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Derek Fowler remembers well the large dinners that his grandmother Mamie Hawkins Debnam prepared in her Dorchester home when he was growing up. They were affairs with ribs, sweet potatoes, peach cobbler, and other Southern specialties whose recipes the family matriarch had brought with her from North Carolina decades before. (Full article: 814 words)