The News-Courier in Athens, Alabama

Local News

Related Photos

  • These two chefs shared their culinary talent and helped raise money for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Limestone County at last year’s Best Buckin’ Barbecue Cook-off. If you have a grill, a gift for barbecuing and can travel to the Limestone Sheriff’s Rodeo Arena near Athens, you are qualified to participate at this year’s event April 23-24.

    images_sizedimage_022092140

Discussion

Add a comment on this story
January 22, 2010

Calling all cooks

By Jean Cole

Think your barbecue is the best?

Then you should enter this year’s fifth-annual Best Buckin’ Barbecue Cook-off April 23-24 in Limestone County.

Some $12,000 in prize money will be awarded, and proceeds from the event help the Boys & Girls Clubs of Limestone County.

“Think you grill some of the best pork, ribs or chicken around town?” said Joan Brunson, a member of the barbecue committee. “Fire up your grill and come down to the rodeo arena and prove it.”

The event is free to the public, but amateur teams will be charged a $125 entry fee and professional teams will be charged $250, she said.

Friday is the set up for the cooks, with the contest beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday.

The annual cook-off, held at the Limstone County Sheriff’s Rodeo Arena at 17836 Alabama 99 near Athens, helps kick off the annual rodeo.

Southern Crossroads, a local non-profit fundraising organization, is proud to announce the event.

Last year’s event, which is sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbeque Society, drew more than 90 cooking teams from across the country to compete for championship trophies and prize money. Forty professional teams participated from as far away as Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio, Florida and New York. Amateurs came from all across Alabama and surrounding states.

Gov. Bob Riley has designated the event one of Alabama’s Championship Cook-offs, chefs can also compete in the Alabama BBQ Trail, Brunson said. Cooking teams earning the most points throughout the cooking season at various trail cook-off’s have a chance at the prestigious State Governors Cup trophy, she said.

To sign up to cook, go online to www.bestbuckinbbq.org. For more information, call Jonathan Hinton at (256) 497-4887 or send him e-mail at jhinton@limestonesheriff.com.



Text Only
Local News
Poll

Will your family take a summer vacation this year?

Yes
No
     View Results
Echoes from the Titanic
AP Video
California's Foie Gras Ban About to Begin 6-Year-Old Going to National Spelling Bee Video Essay: Funky Winkerbean Comic Turns 40 On Thailand Trip, Suu Kyi Visits Migrants Raw Video: Pink Diamond Auctioned for $17.4M Hurricane Andrew Remembered, 20 Years Later Sister Says She Reported Brother in Patz Killing Patz Suspect's Sister: I Went to Police in 1980s Diplomatic Expulsions Follow Fresh Syria Report 15 Dead in Northern Italy's 5.8-magnitude Quake Angry Birds Spreading Their Wings Witness Describes Fla. Face-chewing Attack Man Falls Off Crane, Dies After Police Standoff Russia Condemns Ally Syria Over Massacre of 108 Dairy Farm Uses Chiropractor to Help Cows Unexpected Smog in Pristine National Parks Air Canada Plane Makes Emergency Landing New Ticks Spread Across Southeast, Diseases Rise Bring Your Own Tech Programs Charge Up Students Pope's Butler Vows to Help Vatican Investigation
Hyperlocal Search
Premier Guide
Find a business

Walking Fingers
Maps, Menus, Store hours, Coupons, and more...
Premier Guide
Popular Searches
Powered by Local.com
Stocks
Parade
Magazine
Click HERE to read all your Parade favorites including Hollywood Wire, Celebrity interviews and photo galleries, Food recipes and cooking tips, Games and lots more.
Business Marquee
Community Calendar
Loading…
Events by eviesays.com