James Argo’s Oconee Gold barbecue sauces are rapidly gaining favor in kitchens and at cookouts — and it all started in Gwinnett County.
“In my friend group, I was one of the first to start smoking meat,” said Argo, who grew up in Lilburn and Snellville and graduated from Brookwood High School in 1995. “That obviously got to be very popular in the 2000s and I’d always be messing around with a sauce – I’ve been doing that for what seems like forever. I started making sauce back in those days and it’s obviously been tweaked many times since then.”
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