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Calendar Listing: Celebrate The Valley’s 5^th Annual Taste of The Deerfield Valley, Friday, Saturday & Sunday,  September 10th, 11th & 12th  at the base of Mount Snow Resort in Dover, Vermont featuring top BBQ Champion and TV star Myron Mixon benefiting the Junior Iron Chef program.  www.celebratethevalley.com

DOVER, VT—July 21, 2010

The 5^th Annual Taste of the Deerfield Valley showcases dozens of top restaurants in the area to give the public the opportunity to taste specialty items from each of them and the opportunity to vote for their favorite taste. This year Celebrate the Valley is very excited to announce major additions to the 5^th Annual Taste of the Deerfield Valley… Myron Mixon, three-time World BBQ Champion and TV star of TLC’s Pitmasters, will join the Taste of the Deerfield Valley.

On Friday evening, September 10^th, Myron will entertain and demonstrate his barbecue prowess at a special dinner hosted by The Hermitage Inn of West Dover, and Saturday, September 11^th, Myron will be at the Grand Summit Hotel ballroom demonstrating his barbecuing skills.  All attending will learn Myron’s barbecuing techniques and they will get to sample his cooking.

Also joining the Taste this year, Mr. Mixon will be joined by Chef Robert Barral, owner of Café Provence, Brandon, VT and former New England Culinary Institute executive chef.  Chef Robert will team up with the Twin Valley Schools’ Junior Iron Chefs for a special demonstration on Saturday morning.  Saturday afternoon will feature “tastes” from over a dozen restaurants, live music, craft fair and kids activities.

The following day, Sunday, September 12, the Deerfield Valley Community Cares is organizing the Best Dam Walk —a great way to walk off any indulging at the Taste. There are several walks available. The one-way walk is the most appropriate for families and will begin at 10am. Each entering adult will be asked to have $50 worth of sponsors (five people at $10 each or any other combination) and each child under 12 will be asked to have $10 worth of sponsors. The walk will be held rain or shine.

The Taste has also teamed up with the Deerfield Valley Healthcare Volunteers to help revive the popular “Art on the Mountain” three-day art show at Mount Snow

Tickets for the Taste are $15 for adults, $5 for children age 7-12, and free for children 6 and under. Friday evening and Saturday morning’s cooking demonstration tickets are additional.

The 5^th Annual Taste of the Deerfield Valley is brought to you by Celebrate the Valley, Inc., and sponsored by the Town of Dover, g.housen, 92.7 WKVT, Outside Television and g. Housen.

A portion of the proceeds from the events will go to the Junior Iron Chef program and The Deerfield Valley Food Pantry will be on-hand accepting food donations.

For more information, please go to: www.celebratethevalley.com.

Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce Tops Men’s Health Bottled BBQ Favorites

Taste Tests Reveals Preferred Go-To Grilling Sauce

Washington, DC (July 22, 2010) – Men’s Health Magazine recently dubbed Pork Barrel BBQ the favorite among bottled barbecue sauces. Taste testers and sauce aficionados picked Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce over several other big name bbq brands currently available on supermarket shelves.

After sorting through a selection of bbq brands of best-selling sauces like Bullseye, Sweet Baby Ray, Annie’s Naturals Organic and Stone Levitation Ale BBQ, the sauce samplers at Men’s Health blog selected Pork Barrel BBQ Sauce as their number one go-to grilling favorite.

The judges were split over preferences for sweet and smoky BBQ, ending in a tie between Pork Barrel BBQ’s Original Sauce for its smoky and “aromatic flavor” and Dinosaur Bar-B-Que’sSensuous Slathering sweet sauce.

Pork Barrel BBQ is quickly becoming the preferred bbq sauce for the backyard bbq’er. Since the company started selling BBQ sauces in 2009, all types of bbq’ers – from serious smokers to casual grillers – have taken notice of the sensational sauces. Pork Barrel BBQ’s Original and Sweet sauces have taken home several top awards from the Kansas City Barbecue Society and Memphis in May competitions, including winning the “People’s Choice” award at the prestigious annual Safeway National BBQ Battle in Washington, D.C.

In less than one year since their appearance on the ABC and Mark Burnett reality show Shark Tank, the company has experienced huge growth, and their Pork Barrel BBQ Sauces and Spice Rub are now carried in 1,000 stores in 40 states. Preparations are underway for opening a restaurant in the Del Ray neighborhood of Alexandria, Virginia this fall.

People nationwide can try these award winning sauces for themselves by purchasing them at their local grocery stores such as Safeway, Whole Foods, Schnucks, Harris Teeter and Cost Plus World Market. To find stores near you that carry Pork Barrel BBQ products, visit the online store locator and interactive map at www.porkbarrelbbq.com/store-locations.

“We are proud to be voted the favorite bbq sauce by Men’s Health taste testers,” said Brett Thompson, CEO and co-founder Pork Barrel BBQ.

For recipes and BBQ tips, visit www.porkbarrelbbq.com/recipe.

About Pork Barrel BBQ
Pork Barrel BBQ was founded in December 2008 during the peak of the economic crisis to prove that a company not owned or operated by the federal government could succeed, and that if you had a good idea, it was still possible to grab a piece of the American Dream. Pork Barrel BBQ founders, Heath Hall and Brett Thompson, ran the company out of the basement of their houses, selling their award winning BBQ one bottle at a time. In less than one year, their Pork Barrel BBQ Sauces and Spice Rub are now carried in over 1,000 stores in 40 states. Throughout their journey, they have stayed true to their mission – to unite the nation through the great tradition of BBQ, and bring bipartisan flavor to your next meal. The Pork Barrel BBQ Competition BBQ Team entered its first contest, The Safeway National Capital Barbecue Battle, in June 2009, and walked away with two trophies – Second Place in the “Nations Best BBQ Sauce Contest” and Fourth Place for their pulled pork in the Memphis In May portion of the contest. Since then, the team has won multiple awards, including the “People’s Choice” award for best bbq sauce in 2010 and other notable Memphis and May and Kansas City Barbecue Society bbq competition accolades. For more information, visit www.PorkBarrelBBQ.com.

Just added a link to the 2nd Annual Way Out West BBQ Championship to our growing directory of bbq festivals and competitions at BBQ-Festivals.com.  This event will be held on July 3rd at Weber Points Event Center in Stockton CA.

Information from the Way Out West BBQ Championship Website:

What better way to celebrate the most American of holidays than with a good old fashion BBQ competition.The celebration begins July 2^nd as competition BBQ teams from across the Western United States converge at the Weber Point Event Center to compete for cash prizes, bragging rights, and a State Championship BBQ title. Once these competitors fire up their pits, downtown Stockton will be filled with the overwhelming aroma of smoke and spice awaiting your tasting and judgment the following day at the Second Annual Taste of San Joaquin.

On July 3^rd, the premier celebration of food and entrancement comes together as locally-owned and operated restaurants, wineries, and BBQ’rs, offer ‘tastes’ for as little as $1.00!!! Add live entertainment, sunshine and activities for the whole family and you have just experienced the most celebrated of American holidays in the best possible way.

Sounds like this is going to be a great event.  If you are in the Stockton area, be sure to mark your calendars for July 3rd.

A friend of mine brought me a jar of “Now It’s Cajun All Purpose Seasoning”.  Looking forward to giving it a try this weekend on some chicken.  In my opinion a little Louisiana spice is always good.

Ron over at The Last Bite wrote a review back in April that I just got around to reading. He stopped in at The Famous Rib Shack in San Bruno, CA.  After reading Ron’s review it makes me want to hop a plane and head out west for some barbecue.  Believe me, if he says it is good barbecue then it is definitely good barbecue.  Vist The Last Bite and check out the review of the Rib Shack bbq restaurant.  See if it doesn’t make your mouth water.

Here is the link to the review at The Last Bite.