GRAVETTE -- The combined team of Reba Moore and Diana Moyer of Barnyard Cooks, and Randall Lewis of the Backwoods Bakers, from the Fayetteville area, received a plaque for first place overall in the seventh annual Gravette Day Dutch oven cookoff. The team also took first place in the bread category with their delightful dinner rolls and first place in the dessert category with their peach cobbler.
Jesse and Jane Beeks, a brother-sister team from Farmington calling themselves the Pot Rasslers, took first place in the main dish category with their chicken pot pie.
Other teams competing were Slim Pickens, a team composed of a Gravette couple, Corey and Donna Taylor, and Brian and Kathy Horstman of Rogers; Cookin' Rookies from Siloam Springs and Greenwood, a team in their first cooking competition; and Culver Creek Posse, the team of Jon and Diana Tupper from Joplin, Mo.
Kelley Sharp, of Farmington, from Kell's Cook Shack, was the people's choice award winner with his dirty pork chops and dirty rice. He received a plaque and $50 but was not eligible to compete for the overall prize since he prepared only one dish. People's Choice is voted on by participants in the cookoff tasting event. Tasters paid $5 for a tasting bowl and were able to sample each of the dishes.
All first-place teams received a blue ribbon and $150, second-place teams won a red ribbon and $75 and third-place earned a white ribbon and $50.
Several gift baskets and some macrame wall hangings created by museum commission member Betsy Meek were raffled off. Members of the Old Town String Band entertained the crowd with musical numbers during the afternoon.
General News on 08/21/2019