The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO

June 19, 2009

<img src=" http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/new.gif" border=0> Area chicken restaurants listed as one of wonders of Kansas cuisine


Crawford County fried chicken restaurants were among the winners in the Eight Wonders of Kansas Cuisine promotion announced this morning.

The six chicken restaurants were a single entry in the promotion. Winners were chosen by mail and online voting.

The restaurants are: Chicken Annie’s Original, rural Pittsburg; Chicken Mary’s, rural Pittsburg; Gebhardt’s Chicken and Dinners, Mulberry; Barto’s Idle Hour, Frontenac; Chicken Annie’s Girard; and Pichler’s Chicken Annie’s, rural Pittsburg.

Josie’s Ristorante in Scammon was a finalist in the promotion by the Kansas Sampler Foundation, but it didn’t make the final eight.