Courtesy Photograph / Texas Kosher BBQ Championship
San Antonio barbecue aficionado and journalist Chuck Blount cooks up barbecue in his yard.
The Texas Kosher BBQ Championship, billed because the nation’s largest such cooking contest, will return for its ninth season, devoted to San Antonio barbecue aficionado and journalist Chuck Blount.
The Sunday, Nov. 12 occasion will carry practically two dozen groups of Jewish pitmasters to the Shavano Park space to prepare dinner up kosher takes on brisket, hen and fish for a shot at a money prize and a Grand Championship belt buckle.
Cooks will comply with the requirements of Kashrut, Judaism’s dietary legal guidelines, guaranteeing cooking utensils have been correctly “kashered,” or cleaned, and that every one meats, spices and different substances are permitted by the Torah. Per custom, a rabbi will supervise.
This yr’s occasion is held within the honor of Blount, an award-winning journalist with greater than 20 years of expertise on the San Antonio Categorical-Information, who handed away earlier this yr. The Iowa native made a reputation for himself within the Alamo Metropolis meals scene by overlaying barbecue competitions — he was a veteran decide of the Texas Kosher BBQ Championship — in addition to food- and drink-focused columns for the Categorical-Information.
Blount’s spouse and Categorical-Information copy editor, Debbie Erwin, will decide this yr’s contenders in his stead.
The competitors and tasting will happen at Congregation Agudas Achim, 16550 Huebner Highway, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — or till the pitmasters run out. The occasion additionally will embody scorching dog-, jalapeño- and pickle-eating contests in addition to stay music and youngsters’ actions. Tickets can be found on-line. $15-$30, Texas Kosher BBQ Championship, Congregation Agudas Achim, 16550 Huebner Highway, thetexaskosherbbqchampionship.com.
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