Aunt Mildred's #10 BBQ Sauce is a Kansas City owned and operated BBQ sauce company.
Portland, Arkansas, 1944. McArthur Williams (Aunt Mildred’s father) created the recipe for a barbecue sauce that has withstood the test of picky barbecue eaters' taste buds and has been passed down through three generations.
Mac’s Barbecue was owned and operated by McArthur for over 40 years in Portland. A staple in the community, it has been told that customers would drive from all over the country just to dine on his barbecue and buy his special sauce.
Around the time that he opened Mac’s, McArthur and his wife, Neacie welcomed a baby girl, Mildred. Mildred was one of 12 children. Mildred, being born and raised in Portland, Ark. Mildred’s parents instilled a strong work ethic in her early in life. In her mid-teen years, Mildred began working in the fields in Portland, Ark. weeding beans and she also picked cotton in the cotton fields of Dermott, Arkansas.
From a young age, Mildred developed a