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The Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest is an annual regional event held each May since 2002 on the grounds of the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum in Murfreesboro, North Carolina. It is noted as a showcase to sample the type of cooking the region is famous for.

Largely a barbecue cooking contest, funds from the event benefit the maintenance and operation of the Museum. Judgement of the winner is performed by 3 certified, licensed judges selected from a list of approved judges from the North Carolina Pork Council.

In 2010, the first place prize was awarded as a tie for the first time to Fred Woodard of Smithfield, Virginia and J.W. Condon of Newport, North Carolina. The competition is sanctioned by the North Carolina Pork Council and is part of the Whole Hog Barbecue Series where the winners of this competition compete for the state championship in Raleigh each October. Several winners of the Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest have won the state championship including one year where the first, second and third place winners of the state championship were from this competition.

No event was held 2020-2023 because of the pandemic but it was reinstated in 2024.

See also

References

  1. "Roanoke-Chowan Pork-Fest". Taste Atlas Awards. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  2. VanDerBroek, Amanda (May 23, 2007). "Records fall at Pork Fest". Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald.
  3. Flanagan, Tim (4 April 2015). "Jefcoat Museum: a hidden treasure". Tidewater News. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  4. Zeigler, Jeff (8 August 2019). "Murfreesboro Pork-Fest a showcase for best in barbecue". Virginia Pilot. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  5. ^ Davis, Sarah (May 2019). "Less Sauce Equals More Flavor: Pork Fest Continues Long Tradition". Eastern Living. p. 42-43. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  6. "Pork Fest competition produces 1st-place tie". Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald. 20 May 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2011.
  7. ^ "About". Whole Hog Barbeque Series. North Carolina Pork Council . Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  8. "13th Annual Roanoke Chowan Porkfest". NC BBQ. Retrieved 6 January 2025.
  9. Taylor, Holly (23 August 2023). "Pork Fest Revived". Roanoke-Chowan News Herald. Retrieved 6 January 2025.

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