Oxtails? Yup, some days, just like liver and onions. There's meatloaf and sweet potatoes and greens and chicken and dumplings. It's Mississippi cooking, she says, learned from her mother and her great-grandmother. Louis restaurants are busting out their best recipes, Miss Robbie's still does more than hold its own. The interior at Sweetie Pie's Upper Crust / Courtesy of And Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, picked up the television series. She was able to show him pictures of the opening. Tim labored over the television series, making a pilot and trying to sell it. But she opened a few days before Strauss died. She almost got evicted before the restaurant was ready, but Leon Strauss went to the building owners and said he backed her. Meanwhile, her son Tim Norman had decided his mother, her life and work, would make a television series. She found a location on a side street between the Fox and the symphony hall, and worked like mad to finance and rehab it. Robbie wanted to open a larger place, a little more upscale in its creature comforts, with room for private events - and more parking, always of interest to St. Louis University a couple of blocks south. Louis Symphony was just up the street, and St. He and his wife Mary, for instance, took on the project of rehabbing the 4,500 seat Fox Theater, an old movie palace in midtown St. Leon Strauss, the co-star in this narrative, may have been on dialysis, but he was a busy guy. Meanwhile, her second location, in a neighborhood known as The Grove, then just beginning to come together, was created with the same format as her original: soul food served from a cafeteria line. Dialysis is not a slow process, and he and Robbie became friends over the years. One of her patients was Leon Strauss, an architect, urban developer and one of St. But Miss Robbie dreamed of bigger things. And she opened a small soul food restaurant in north St. She ended up becoming a dialysis technician at one of the city's teaching hospitals. Robbie Montgomery (middle) with the Ikettes / Courtesy of īut her lung collapsed, and she returned to her home in St. Later in her career, she backed up many other big names like Stevie Wonder and Barbra Streisand. In those days of segregation, she cooked plenty of meals for the musicians on an electric skillet in her hotel rooms. The elegant Robbie Montgomery, known as Sweetie Pie, sang backup to Ike and Tina Turner. Louis.What becomes a legend most? Sometimes (despite the famous Blackglama ads) it's not a mink coat, it's fried chicken. The feds claim they communicated on burner phones in the days leading up to the killing in St. Miss Robbie’s son, and costar on the former OWN show, James Timothy Norman was busted by feds for his alleged role in the 2016 shooting death of Andre Montgomery … his nephew and Miss Robbie’s grandchild.Īccording to docs, prosecutors say Norman - who owns Sweetie Pie’s restaurant - took out a $450k life insurance policy on his nephew back in 2014 … and then worked with a woman named Terica Ellis to allegedly pull off the murder. “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” star Miss Robbie is dealing with a new family shocker tied to the murder of her grandson - cops have arrested her own son for an alleged murder-for-hire plot straight outta “Dateline.” You also know about the murder of her grandson which happened during the show. If you watched the reality show “Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s” you probably know Miss Robbie and her son Tim Norman. His nephew and Miss Robbie’s grandchild.Wild story coming out of Saint Louis.
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