INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) —  Each and every Saturday, WISH-TV highlights a local company together with our partners at Indiana Grown.

This week, Lathay Pegues, owner of JohnTom’s Barbecue in Muncie, joined News 8 at Daybreak!

Pegues says the business was started in an attempt to recreate his grandfather’s barbecue sauce recipe.

“He passed away when I was 11, and we realized that this famous barbecue sauce that he would make, he never wrote down the recipe,” he explained. “So, when I became an adult, I took it upon myself to try to reverse engineer it. I didn’t quite get it, but came up with something that the people ...